Lennon bought the guitar at a Liverpool music shop in 1962 and used it on recordings of a number of Beatles songs, including “P.S. I Love You” and “Love Me Do,” according to Julien’s Auctions. He also have strummed it while writing several Beatles hits with Paul McCartney, such as “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “All My Loving.” The price far surpassed the $965,000 paid at a 2013 Christie’s auction for the electric guitar Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. A Beatles drum head, which is the membrane stretched over a drum, sold at the same auction, Sunday, for $2.1 million.
