price the guitar John Lennon used to play on the Beatles hit Love Me Do was sold at an auction in November 2015 in California.

year Lennon bought the jumbo J-160E Gibson Acoustic guitar at a Liverpool music shop. He used it on recordings of a number of Beatles songs, including PS I Love You and Love Me Do. He also is said to have strummed it while writing several Beatles hits with Paul McCartney, such as I Want To Hold Your Hand and All My Loving.

year the guitar went missing during the Beatles' Finsbury Park Christmas Show. For decades been in the possession of John McCaw, a novice musician who bought it in the late 1960s without knowing it had been stolen from the legendary Beatle.