An incredibly acoustic guitar owned by Beatle John Lennon went missing years ago — now the famous guitar has been found and it will be auctioned off by Julien’s Auctions next month. This guitar had some of the most popular songs in music written on it, songs such as ‘Help’, ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’, ‘Norwegian Wood’, and ‘Girl’. The guitar can also be seen in the Fab Four’s 1965 movie ‘Help’.
Lennon’s guitar. / Julien’s Auctions
The guitar was given to the Beatles road manager back in the 1960s and somehow the guitar ended up in a home in the British countryside. It was recently discovered when the homeowners were getting ready to move and they found the guitar in their attic, complete with the original case.
“Finding this remarkable instrument is like finding a lost Rembrandt or Picasso, and it still looks and plays like a dream after having been preserved in an attic for more than 50 years,” Darren Julien, co-founder and executive director of Julien’s Auctions, said in a statement.
The guitar is thought to fetch between $600,000 and $800,000, but it most certainly fetch a lot more. The most expensive guitar ever sold at auction was Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E, the one that he played in the famous MTV Unplugged session. That guitar sold for a whopping $6.1 million.