George Harrison’s Höfner Club 40 guitar controversy

8 Responses

  1. Mark McKendrick says:

    I'm not sure I understand this.
    Where is the controversy over the guitar?
    Are you saying the guitar in the auction is not the one in the picture?

  2. Andrew Stanhope says:

    This article confused me too…

  3. wogew says:

    The sceptics think that George has been manipulated into the photo (like in Photoshop) and that the image of him is from another photo, or made up from several other photos of him. The sad thing ist that even after the discovery of the sale of the photo in 1996 and after the scan from the auction catalogue has appeared, the sceptics are sticking to their story. And the photo itself has not appeared to in any way to confirm the authenticity of the guitar, because the instrument has a known history and provenance without needing to be attached to the photo. By maintaining that the photo is a falsification (for fear of losing face?), the sceptics are digging themselves deeper into the mud, instead of admitting that they were wrong. And these are otherwise respected "Beatle people". So I'm sad on their behalf, which is partly why I didn't go into details in the blog post..

  4. Mark McKendrick says:

    OK thanks for that, Roger. I can't think why anybody would want to manipulate George into such a photo – it doesn't prove anything about any part of it's subject matter, least of all wither or nay the guitar's authenticity. For me, it's just a bad photo of George and the fam.

  5. Infidelity says:

    Worth mentioning that John liked referring to this guitar as the “club footy”.

  6. Mark McKendrick says:

    Tsk, tsk… that Lennon. What was he like…?

  7. wogew says:

    Ashwom has added a third blog post to wrap up the story.

  8. Peter Hodgson says:

    Hey Roger.

    How about you researching something for yourself instead of leeching from other people's blogs and the like.

    I was well within my rights to ask questions.

    '' By maintaining that the photo is a falsification (for fear of losing face?), the sceptics are digging themselves deeper into the mud, instead of admitting that they were wrong. And these are otherwise respected "Beatle people". So I'm sad on their behalf''

    So you were sad on my behalf?
    Why?

    ''Fear of losing face''?
    Not me.

    The worst that you can accuse me of is of me being a crap photoshop expert, nothing more.

    What have you ever done or discovered?

    Don't be sad on my behalf…I've earned a good few stripes in my time.

    You have a short memory Roger.

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