Classic Axes: John Lennon's Rickenbacker

 

    Lennon purchased this guitar in 1960 and it was originally a natural/honey finish 4/5 scale solid top guitar.  In 1963 it was refinished in black and became the famous one we know and love today.  However…Lennon had the guitar restored and repaired to it’s original color sometime in the 70’s and it is rumored to have been the guitar he used on Yoko’s  “Walking On Thin Ice”, perhaps the last song he ever worked on.