John Lennon's 'Love Me Do' Guitar Sells for Record $2.4 Million

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John Lennon's long-lost acoustic Gibson J-160E, used in the recording of the Beatles' Please Please Me and With the Beatles LPs, shattered all estimates Saturday on the Julien's Live auction block, as the instrument sold for $2.41 million, a record for a guitar with music history significance.



Lennon purchased the Gibson at Rushworth’s Music House in Liverpool in September 1962 for £161. 

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