Sir Paul McCartney’s first guitar for auction
Published July 10th, 2006
Sir Paul McCartney’s first guitar is going up for sale later this month.
The Rex acoustic guitar is expected to fetch more than £100,000 at Cooper Owen’s Music Legends auction at Abbey Road Studios in London on 28 July.
Sir Paul learned his first chords on the instrument, which was owned by his best school friend in Liverpool, Ian James.
Mr James, 64, who lives in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is selling the guitar to help fund his retirement.
The instrument is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the former Beatle which says: “The above guitar belonging to my old school pal Ian James was the first guitar I ever held.
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