Lennon guitar sells at auction for $2.4 million

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write “Love Me Do,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other hit songs sold for $2.4 million at auction.

Julien’s Auctions said the Gibson J-160E guitar was sold Saturday to an undisclosed buyer.

The auction house said the guitar was one of only two of its type flown from America to England in 1962 for Lennon and George Harrison. Lennon used it for for about a year before swapping it with Harrison; it later went missing during a Christmas concert in 1963.