This 325 would become the sound of Beatles rhythm guitar from 1960 to around ’65, as heard on “All My Loving,” “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”īy the time it was thrust into the public eye during the band’s 1964 debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, Lennon’s 325 had transmuted to a gloss-black finish in 1962, courtesy of an English coachmaker. Not just for Rickenbackers, for anything – Fenders, Gibsons… And I think it purely because John needed a decent guitar and that one happened to be in the shop and he liked the look of it.” Harrison, who was along for the ride when Lennon bought the guitar, told BBC Radio, “It was a great-looking guitar, and I think in England you had to order them and wait for six months.
The 325, like the other models in the series, was designed by German luthier Roger Rossmeisl. Lennon found his hanging in a Hamburg guitar shop in the form of a natural-finish 1958 Rickenbacker 325, which was part of the company’s Capri series (named for the Hall family cat). For Lennon, Harrison or any young British rock and roller of 1960, the term quality guitar was synonymous with American guitar. It was around this time that a young John Lennon was walking the streets of Hamburg, Germany, in search of his dream guitar. The big horseshoe pickup still appeared on some of the revamped company’s early models, notably the Combo, but over the next few years, some more-conventional single-coil guitars went into production, and the line was lurching toward what we consider its classic status.īy the end of the 1950s, Rickenbacker offered a model range that included hollowbodies, short- and full-scale solids, and semi-hollowbodies with one, two and even three pickups. (Image credit: Sammlung Horst Fascher - K & K/Redferns)
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