Existing comment:
Club 40 (serial no. 244)
ca. 1958
Höfner Gmbh & Co.
George Harrison acquired this Club 40, his first electric guitar, in 1959, at a time when he, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney were moving away from acoustic-guitar-driven "skiffle" music toward an American pop-influenced electric sound. He used the Club 40 in shows at Liverpool's Casbah Coffee Club, where the young Beatles had their first residency as the Quarrymen. In 1966, Frank Dostal, the guitarist of the German bands Faces and the Rattles, won this guitar as a prize in a competition. The signatures on the guitar were actually written by Neil Aspinall, the Beatles' road manager. |