John Lennon The Beatles Epiphone 70th Anniversary Casino Guitar Limited to 35

Epiphone USA guitars are the only ones produced domestically.

At the Liverpool Institute, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were classmates.
It is now known as The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. The Quarrymen were on the lookout for a new lead guitarist. Finally, bandleader John Lennon and fellow band member Paul McCartney got to see George Harrison perform. When George auditioned in 1958, they were all traveling on a double-decker bus in Liverpool, England. George performed live on the bus. They were both impressed to hear George play the guitar, and in result, John accepted George into the Quarrymen band.

On July 6, 1957, their mutual acquaintance Ivan Vaughan introduced them at the Woolton Village Fete at St. Peter’s Church. Vaughan had persuaded McCartney, then 15, to accompany him to see John Lennon’s Quarrymen perform. Lennon and McCartney later became friends because of their shared taste in music. McCartney demonstrated alternate guitar tuning to Lennon and performed Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” Gene Vincent’s “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” and many Little Richard tunes, which impressed Lennon. “I partially thought to myself, ‘He’s as good as me,'” remembered Lennon. A few weeks later, McCartney was approached to join the Quarrymen and agreed, singing lead vocals and playing guitar.

John Lennon played the American-made Epiphone Casino.