The story of this guitar is one of those when an instrument is so linked to a musician to become almost an icon of him. Ric 325 is to Lennon what Fender Stratocaster is to Jimi Hendrix, or Gibson SG is to Angus Young.

Lennon bought this guitar in Hamburg in 1961, after weeks and weeks spent saving money. It was a natural finish model with golden pickguard and “short arm” (the neck was shorter). It was a perfect instrument for rock n’ roll: its hollow body (without f-holes) but most of all the three “toaster” pickups (called so cause resembling to a toaster) produced a gingly, acute sound which probably has never been reproduced again by any instrument.

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