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John Lennon’s Hootenanny 12-string sold for $2.8m last year – now Framus has revived the acoustic with the Lennon estate’s approval
One of the most expensive guitars ever sold at auction gets a long-awaited return six decades after John Lennon used it to record Beatles classics
The Liverbirds played alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – and paved the way for women in rock
From booting Chuck Berry’s manager off stage and proving John Lennon wrong, to touring Japan and blazing a screaming trail across Europe, The Liverbirds took Merseybeat beyond British shores, on their own terms
LA-based guitar repairer Ryan Schuermann on how he landed the guitar repair gig of a lifetime
The guitar repairer restored John Lennon's 12-string Framus Hootenanny acoustic guitar to its former glory, after it was lost for over 50 years
John Lennon’s lost Help! Framus acoustic has been found in an attic after 50 years
The 12-string acoustic guitar was used on a number of classic Beatles tracks, and is tipped to rival Kurt Cobain’s $6m Martin D-18e when it hits the auction block next month
“I bought it from this bloke our drummer knew. I think it was the first fretless electric bass ever”: Bill Wyman on the origins of his famous “homemade” fretless bass
The former Rolling Stones bassist used a modified fretless on every album and many of the singles up to 1975
Framus Diablo Supreme review
Tip-top German engineering and quality control meets affordability with this no-fuss six-string
Framus Pro Series Idolmaker review
Why that funky brand from the '60s making modern German-made guitars using innovative high-tech production methods should be on your radar
Warwick/Framus declares victory over Gibson in Flying V legal battle
The German manufacturer had been the subject of a lawsuit alleging imitation of Gibson products
