McCartney Times

George Harrison’s “crap” first guitar which has been gently weeping in a cupboard for more than 50 years could fetch tens of thousands of pounds when it is sold next month. The Beatles’ guitarist learnt to play on the battered instrument which was given to a neighbour by Harrison’s mother when his parents moved house in 1965. As she left the semi-detached house at 174 Mackets Lane, Liverpool, Louise Harrison spotted George Rawlinson in the street and asked him if he wanted it. She is said to have told him

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