| "body"> | | | | and used a variety of these guitars from 1966 |
| The Beatles may well be arguably the worlds biggest | | | | onwards. Lennon painted this guitar and it appeared |
| ever band. Musically from the early 1960's to the end | | | | during the White Album sessions and in the Film "Let |
| of their career they covered an array of different | | | | it Be". During that film Lennon can be seen playing his |
| music styles from the jangly pop of their early days | | | | Casino while rehearsing new material. Lennon's Casino |
| to the psychedelia of their latter albums. To cover all | | | | also features during the celebrated performance on |
| these different sounds they needed a broad range | | | | the London roof top of their office building. Lennon is |
| of instruments. | | | | synonymous with the Casino, so much so that |
| Throughout their career they used a variety of | | | | Epiphone recently re-released a John Lennon |
| guitars and you can see many photographs of the | | | | signature Casino. This faithful reproduction is of the |
| Beatles with Rickenbacker's (325's in particular) | | | | guitar as John originally purchased it with the vintage |
| various Gretch, Fender and Hofner. However they | | | | sunburst finish and stock hardware. |
| are also linked with Epiphone Guitars and often | | | | The Beatles also used Epiphone's acoustic guitars. Paul |
| choose Epiphone guitars over all other guitars for | | | | McCartney favored the Epiphone Texan acoustic |
| recordings and live performances. | | | | guitar and it was used to record the epic track |
| The first Beatle to own an Epiphone guitar was Paul | | | | Yesterday. McCartney still uses Texan's to this day. |
| McCartney who bought his first, an Epiphone | | | | Clearly the Beatles have been one of the (if not the) |
| Casino,during 1964. Influenced by the sound of this | | | | biggest influences in popular music over the last 50 |
| guitar John and George bought theirs soon after. The | | | | years. Their sound was distinct and this was bought |
| Epiphone Casino is a hollow-body double cutaway | | | | about both by their playing and their selection of |
| electric guitar. Although available in a variety of colors, | | | | instruments. Thier Epiphone guitars contributed to |
| George Harrison stripped his down to bare wood | | | | their sound and a number of guitars have become |
| saying that he liked the sound of the guitar being | | | | iconic in their association with arguably the worlds |
| able to breathe. | | | | biggest band. |
| John Lennon favored the Epiphone E230TD Casino | | | | |