John Lennon and George Harrison’s guitar has sold for $408,00 at an auction over the weekend. The VOX guitar was customized to the artists and it sold for double the expected amount.
The electric guitar was sold at the annual Music Icons Auctions, May 18 at the Hard Rock Café in Time Square, Billboard reports. The guitar was the center piece of the auctions on-day special.
Harrison practiced “I Am The Walrus” and Lennon used it in a video session for “Hello, Goodbye,” on the guitar. “The rare offering of a VOX guitar played by both John Lennon and George Harrison is what rock & roll legends are made of,” Julien’s Auctions noted according to Rolling Stone.
According to the auction house, Mike Bennett made the custom-made guitar. At a museum in Ireland the instrument was displayed and then later sold a few years ago for just over $100,000.
Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, David Cassidy, David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, Madonna, and Jimi Hendrix were other artists who had memorabilia up for auction.
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