George Harrison

This Leslie speaker designed for guitars was used by Harrison on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road". You can hear it on the guitar solo for the single version of "Let It Be" and several songs in the "Abbey Road Medley".

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It was originally purchased by Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, and given to George Harrison. Its original color was Sonic Blue, and was used extensively on the band's sixth album, Rubber Soul. In 1967, he painted it into the way it is today. It can be seen in the music video for "I Am the Walrus". It was later used as a slide guitar when George went solo.

"It was my first real American guitar," he told Guitar Player magazine in 1987. "And I'll tell you, it was secondhand, but I polished that thing. I was so proud to own that." Indeed, Harrison had procured a truly fine guitar for himself—no small feat for an 18-year-old in Liverpool, where any good guitar was hard to come by, let alone a U.S.-made Gretsch.

This is the guitar that George Harrison played on the Ed Sullivan show.

George Harrison used a Futurama in the Beatles early Hamburg days.

George Harrison used this Eric Clapton Fender Signature Guitar while playing with Eric Claptons band in 1991.

George Harrison used this guitar for the opening chords of ''A Hard Day's Night''.

In this source video, George Harrison recalls the use of the Roy Buchanan Blues Master. Serial No. #6.

In this picture, George Harrison is playing a rare acoustic version with the capo on the 2nd fret of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in 1968 on a vintage Gibson Super Jumbo Sunburst guitar.

George Harrison can be seen using a 1965 Epiphone Casino in this photo from the Beatles' last public concert at Candlestick Park.

In this picture George Harrison can be seen using what was the main acoustic used by both George and John until George acquired a Gibson J200 in the late 60's.

In this picture George is used a 1968 Fender Rosewood Telecaster. This guitar was extensively used on both "Abbey Road" and "Let it Be". He can seen using it throughout the "Let It Be" sessions.

In this video George used the Tenneseean. He also used it to record on "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night", as well as using it as his main live guitar from 1964-65.

Eric Clapton gifted a 1957 Les Paul Standard to George Harrison in 1968. This guitar started as a goldtop but was refinished to cherry red, earning it the nickname "Lucy" after Lucille Ball, at the Gibson Kalamazoo factory. Harrison said, “[Eric and I] used to hang out such a lot at that period, and Eric gave me a fantastic Les Paul guitar, which is the one he plays on [“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”]. So it worked out well.”

George Harrison is spotted at 0:22 (and throughout in this Beatles music video for "Lady Madonna") playing a Gibson SG. He used this guitar mainly from 1966 through 1968, after which he gave it to a friend of his, Eric Clapton.

Per the Gibson website, "George Harrison played his red 1964 SG Standard on many Rubber Soul/Revolver-era Beatles tracks, and Lennon played it on “The White Album.” You can see it briefly in the films for “Rain” and “Paperback Writer,” where Lennon is playing a nice Epiphone Casino. George’s SG sold at auction in 2004 for $570,000."

George used the green Hamburguitar on "Real love" shown at 2:32 of this video.

This article, by Guitar Player, says, "The George Harrison guitar is his 1963 Maton Mastersound electric. Harrison used the guitar in the summer of 1963 when he had it on loan from Barratt’s Music Store, in Manchester, England. According to Beatles gear expert Andy Babiuk, Harrison's Gretsch Country Gentleman was experiencing problems and was taken to Barratt's for repair. He received the Maton to use while the repairs were performed. "

At 1:21 in this Hard Rock video, it says that George Harrison used the Guild Starfire on the 1966 tour while traveling on the plane.

George Harrison can be seen using a Hofner President Archtop guitar in this photo. According to The Beatles Gear, this was George's first "good guitar". He paid 30 pounds for it, with a bit of help from his mother. He also put on a pickup, just to increase the volume of the guitar. He later swapped this guitar for a Hofner Club 40 instead.

In this photo, we can see George Harrison playing sunburst Gibson ES-345.

Known as the "Bangladesh Strat", this '50s Fender Stratocaster was used by Harrison during the well known "Concert for Bangladesh" in 1971. It featured a maple fingerboard, while the body was sanded to bare wood, although a lot of people think it was white.

In this photo, Harrison can be seen playing a Ramirez 1A.

In this photo, Harrison can be seen playing a Rickenbacker 425

George Harrison used this guitar in 1993.

George Harrison´s first guitar.

According to The Beatles Gear he played Framus Zenith Model 17 during his teenage years. In the photo put below, he is enjoying a drink wih his mother, with Framus Zenith guitar displayed.