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The Beatles: Guitar Heroes 27 – John Lennon’s Martin D-28 Acoustic

Lennon’s 1965 Martin D-28, this dreadnought acoustic took its place alongside the Gibson J-160E on Beatles albums….

Apparently not part of Fender’s “gift package” of guitars and amps, this sunburst model shows up in Abbey Road studio….

In ’67, to commemorate the “All You Need Is Love” satellite broadcast, Harrison gave his Strat a psychedelic paint job and nicknamed it Rocky….

John Lennon’s mom Julia Lennon allowed her son’s new guitar to be delivered to her house, rather than that of disapproving Aunt Mimi….

The Zenith, on which McCartney composed his earliest songs, including “When I’m 64,” still hangs in his studio….

When Harrison went to Hessy’s Music in Liverpool on 20 November looking for a new guitar, he was thinking Stratocaster….

A 1987 Harrison article in Guitar Player notes that in late ’65 “all four Beatles received Russian-made nylon string guitars….

One day in the studio, during the Help! sessions, Lennon and Harrison sent roadie Mal Evans out to get a couple Strats….