Lennon played the guitar throughout the Beatles’ North American tour in 1964 and during the recording sessions. I've only ever seen the Rose Morris version, which traditionally has "1996" somewhere in the model number. Shortly after John Lennon used a Rickenbacker guitar in the Beatles’ first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, Rickenbacker built him this one-of-a-kind twelve-string version of his Model 325. There was also, as far as I'm aware, a version of the 325 with the cat's eye f-hole. Ironically you can't get them with the f-hole very easily anymore, as all the reissues are based on John's guitars. John's wasn't an American variant, it was a very early, possibly prototype version of that model and the second was likely built specifically to omit the f-hole after Rickenbacker saw him playing the '58. Apparently 1958 was the first year and the only to have a solid top rather than the f-hole.īut the 325, stock in the 60s, would have had the f-hole. There's a picture of the Belgian jazz musician Toots Thielemans that has a suspiciously familiar 325-esque guitar behind him in Mapleglo. 1958: Thick 2 1/2' body with square edges. Dot fingerboard inlays (standard trim), back binding only or no binding, 4 knobs. Introduced in 1958, 15 1/4' wide, most with cat-eye soundholes. Mapleglo (natural), Jetglo (black), Fireglo (red sunburst) The Rickenbacker 325 is the first of the Capri series of hollow body guitars released in 1958 by Rickenbacker. Early sixties British Rickenbacker advert - placed by UK distributor Rose Morris. 1964 to 1970 Deluxe Trim: Sparkle crushed pearl fingerboard inlays. The original 325 may have been a prototype, but no one is positive on that. Rickenbacker advertisement (1964) Todays Most Sensational Guitar Sound Rickenbacker 1995.
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