Gretsch replicates George Harrison's "first really decent guitar"

The limited edition Duo Jet aims to be an exact replica of the guitar Harrison purchased used from a merchant sailor in the early 60s.

Hayward wanted 90 pounds (about $255 at the time) for the guitar, but Harrison had just 70, "all crumpled, smelling, what you get paid when you go on gig, a handful of beer money," Hayward says. Harrison eventually took the guitar and left the 70 pounds and an IOU (a copy of which is included with the tribute guitar). Hayward later went to see Harrison's band play a local church dance, but they never talked again. (The debt has since been settled.)

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