Guitar bought by teen George Harrison for £58 sells for eye-watering sum

A GUITAR bought by a teenaged George Harrison for £58 has sold for much than £1million.

The Beatle was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician erstwhile his mum agreed a hire-purchase woody for the Futurama electrical guitar successful 1959.

Harrison played it successful much than 320 shows astatine Liverpool’s Cavern Club and galore times successful Hamburg, Germany, successful 1960 and 1961.

In 1964 it was offered arsenic a contention prize but the winner, AJ Thompson of East Sussex, chose to instrumentality £100 currency instead.

Harrison died aged 58 successful 2001.

The Futurama passed to a collector successful 2019 and acceptable a grounds for Harrison’s guitars erstwhile it fetched £1.03million successful Nashville, Tennessee.

Martin Nolan, enforcement manager of Julien’s Auctions, said the fig acceptable a satellite grounds for the highest merchantability of a George Harrison guitar.

“George Harrison’s iconic Futurama guitar, 1 of the astir important guitars successful stone and rotation history and formative to The Beatles’ sound, has made past astatine today’s auction,” Mr Nolan said.

“We’re beyond thrilled to adhd this Harrison guitar to the Julien’s Auctions’ million-dollar club, which already includes guitars from John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Kurt Cobain.”

Julien’s Auctions besides sold John Lennon’s Hootenanny acoustic guitar this twelvemonth for £2.3million.