A guitar bought by George Harrison for £58 (S$100) has sold for over £1 million (S$1.7 million) at auction. The late Beatles star's mother paid for the Resonet Futurama instrument in 1959 when he was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician,

A guitar bought by the late George Harrison for £58 and used in the early days of The Beatles has sold for over £1 million at auction.

A Resonet Futurama guitar, played by George Harrison during the Beatles' early years, sold for $1.27 million at a rock & roll memorabilia auction house in Nashville earlier this week. Julien's Auctions originally priced the guitar between $600,000 to $ ...

George Harrison's early Futurama guitar set a world record for most expensive Harrison guitar ever sold at auction.

The Quiet Beatle’s 1958 Resonet Futurama solid body electric guitar was up for sale at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as part of Julien’s Auctions Played, Worn & Torn II two-day event.

The first song that George Harrison wrote for The Beatles is 1963's 'Don't Bother Me' which he would later criticise by saying it wasn't "particularly good".

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about 58 British pounds ($73) has sold at auction for more than 1 million British pounds ($1.27 million).

The oddball electric – which was used during the Beatles’ early years, and saw action in over 300 historic shows – becomes the most expensive electric guitar formerly owned by a Beatle to sell at auct

George Harrison's 1958 Resonet Futurama solid body electric guitar has sold at auction for over $1 million, making it the most expensive George Harrison guitar ever sold at auction.