George Peckham, a cutting engineer at Apple, had borrowed a guitar from George Harrison for a Top of the Pops appearance with his band, The Fourmost. When he went to return it, Harrison asked whether he would like a guitar of his own and held out a 1962 Rickenbacker he rated highly for rhythm playing, calling it “a great rhythm player”. Peckham accepted on one condition that he would never alter it. According to The Associated Press, the guitar was later sold at the Julien’s Auctions Music Icons event at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York in May 2014. About 43 years after the gift, it sold for $657,000, above the top of its estimate.
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