The lack of a sound hole gives the illusion of the instrument being solid-bodied, and one can assume that Rickenbacker added the sound hole to serve as a visual indicator of it being a hollow-bodied instrument. Lennon’s 1958 Rickenbacker 325 was actually one of the first ones that the company ever made, and was rare for reasons other than the musician who played it, as it was only one of 8 natural finish 325s that the company made in 1958 and it did not include a sound hole, though it was hollow-bodied. For this reason, John Lennon’s first Rickenbacker 325 is nicknamed “Hamburg”. Lennon apparently took a liking to the guitar (the fact that it was American-made likely added to this appeal) and went to purchase one from Steinway’s music store in Hamburg shortly after. The story goes that Lennon and the Beatles had gone to see the jazz artist Toots Thielemans perform while on tour through Hamburg, Germany in 1960, and Toots was playing a Rickenbacker.
It was the one that he played during the Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964, which marked the first time that many Americans had heard of the Beatles, and thus sparked the Beatlemania phenomenon across the country. This is his most famous guitar as it was the one he played during the Beatles’ initial rise to fame.
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The first Rickenbacker 325 that John Lennon owned was a 1958 Capri model, with a natural finish and a serial number “V81”. 1958 Rickenbacker 325, “Hamburg” John Lennon during the Beatles first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, February 9th, 1964.
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