| Sound sale: the guitar that made McCartney
THE guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney played his first faltering chords will be auctioned this month after lying hidden for 50 years. The Rex acoustic guitar, which is expected to fetch more than £100,000, belongs to Sir Pauls school friend Ian James and it was on it that the future Beatle learnt the chords he used to impress John Lennon when they first met. .
Macca's first guitar up for auction
The first guitar Paul McCartney ever played is up for sale. Schoolboy McCartney learned his first chords on the Rex acoustic guitar belonging to his best friend Ian James. Now the instrument is expected to fetch over 100,000 at auction later this month. It comes with a letter from the former Beatles which states: "The above guitar belonging to my old school pal Ian James was the first guitar I ever held. "It was also the guitar on which I learnt my first chords in his house at 43 Elswich Street, Liverpool 8." Ian's guitar lessons helped shape the course of music history. On July 6, 1957, 15-year-old McCartney attended a summer fete at St Peter's Church Hall in Woolton, Liverpool. A young John Lennon was playing there with his band, The Quarrymen.
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This is an arrangement of Stanley Turrentine's classic song. The jazz duo consists of Kevin Pike on alto sax and John Kregor on guitar.
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