John Lennon’s missing guitar featured in The Beatles’ 1965 film “Help!” sold at an auction at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe Wednesday for over $2.8 million.

A long-lost John Lennon guitar has sold for more than $2.85 million at auction at Times Square’s Hard Rock Cafe where collectors, fans and industry aficionados had gathered from around the globe ...

Hootenanny Guitar presumed lost for 50 years that belonged to John Lennon is displayed during the Julien's Music Icons Auction preview at Hard Rock Cafe, May 21, 2024, in New York.

A long-lost John Lennon guitar has sold for more than $2.85 million at auction at Times Square’s Hard Rock Cafe where collectors, fans and industry aficionados had gathered from around the globe ...

John Lennon's prized Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar — on which he played on many of the Beatles' early hits and their 1965 album "Help!" — is among a quintet of legendary rock 'n ...

Lennon’s long-lost acoustic Gibson J-160E, used in the recording of The Beatles’ Please Please Me and With the Beatles albums, fetched $2.4m (£1.93) during an auction by Julien’s in 2015.

The guitar will go under the hammer as part of Julien’s Auctions “Music Icons” event, which will take place at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on May 29-30.

John Lennon's Framus Hootenanny guitar, used by the late Beatle on the band's 1965 'Help!' album, sold at auction for nearly five times its estimated price.

A guitar once owned by John Lennon sold at auction for $2.9 million – $500,000 more than the previous top price for a Beatles item. He had the 12-string Framus Hootenanny acoustic from the band ...