00:00George Harrison's Futurama guitar, one of the Beatle legends most significant and most
00:06played guitars in all of Fab Four history, will go to the highest bidder in Nashville
00:10in an event by Julian's Auctions.
00:13In really good condition when you think about the age of it from 1959, played over 324 times
00:19by George Harrison with the Beatles, Hamburg, Germany on numerous shows and here in the
00:24cavern in Liverpool. This is the Futurama guitar that was bought by George on hire purchase
00:30signed for by his mum. He had to make a down payment and 48 payments, 44, 48 payments after
00:36that.
00:37In 1959 George Harrison purchased this Futurama guitar at Hessey's Music Store in Liverpool.
00:42Estimated 600 to 800 thousand US dollars but I think it should break a million. Pretty
00:48good for a guitar that was bought costing about £74 including the hire purchase fees
00:54and commissions.
00:55In 1964 George Harrison donated the guitar to Beat Instrumental Magazine as a competition
01:00prize for a contest. The winner however decided to take the cash prize rather than the guitar
01:06which then stayed with the magazine editor.
01:09Incredible to think they were trying to promote the Beatles and still make them famous when
01:13you look back at how famous they became. But of course like any other band they had to
01:16work hard, do the grind to become who they became to sort of bring this guitar back home
01:22to Liverpool. This is where it began.
01:24An exhibition of the guitar is on display in the Beatles Story until Thursday October
01:2817th before making other stops in Europe until its appearance on the auction stage at Nashville's
01:33Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in November.
01:37Hopefully the person who wins the bid, hopefully they'll send it back here to the Beatles Story.
01:42Where else would you put it on public display? We're here, we're open 35 years coming up
01:48so it's in the city where it started. It was purchased here, George purchasing his hometown
01:55so why would you put it anywhere else but here?
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