Beside the Rickenbacker 325, the Epiphone Casino is for everyone John Lennon’s Guitar par excellence. From 1968 to his early soloist years it was almost his one and only instrument: it’s the guitar which makes the main sound on the “White Album”, the one played during the rooftoop concert in the “Let it Be” movie, not to forget the sessions for the album “Imagine”.

Lennon actually owned the Casino back in the 1966 and used it widely in those years. Not everyone notices it due to the fact that this instrument at that time had still its original paint: when all of it was pulled off, the myth of Lennon’s “white guitar” was born.

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