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MADE IN DURBAN: JOHN LENNON’S SOUTH AFRICAN GUITAR

I’ve known for a long time that John Lennon’s first guitar was a cheap mail-order thing manufactured in a South African factory, but my interest in this legend was renewed recently when I finally got around to reading volume one of Mark Lewisohn’s magisterial Beatles history Tune In. Chapter Ten is entitled “Guaranteed Not To Split”, a mystical phrase that Paul McCartney has always loved using in…

Keith Richards playing a Gallotone Valencia from his early days with The Blue Boys.