George Harrison John Lennon Epiphone Casino. Figure 1 the john lennon 1965 casino. But it was lennon who became most associated with the instrument most famously playing it on the infamous rooftop appearance of 1969.
In the spring of 66 during recording sessions for revolver john lennon and george harrison both bought casinos. Figure 1 the john lennon 1965 casino. John lennon was the other half of the incredible songwriting juggernaut the famed lennon mccartney tandem with fellow beatle paul mccartney that produced one hit song after another during the beatles incredible run from their inception of the group s classic lineup with george harrison and ringo starr in 1962 up to their break up in 1970.
In fact paul mccartney and george harrison both had casinos as did keith richards of the rolling stones.
Why the beatles all chose the casino as the bands mascot guitar is unknown. Lennon s did have a small black ring mounted around its pickup selector switch. John lennon was the other half of the incredible songwriting juggernaut the famed lennon mccartney tandem with fellow beatle paul mccartney that produced one hit song after another during the beatles incredible run from their inception of the group s classic lineup with george harrison and ringo starr in 1962 up to their break up in 1970. The most obvious difference between these two virtually identical guitars was harrison s had a bigsby vibrato while lennon s had the standard epiphone trapeze tail.
