Keith Richards 1st Steel String
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Keith's first Hofner guitar was bought in this very shop
Location: 56 Rathbone Place (off Oxford Street), W1T 1JT
Description: Ivor Mairants was a professional jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
With his wife Lily in 1958 he created Ivor Mairants Musicentre, a specialist guitar store in London that was the first of its kind in the country and is still among the foremost of its kind in the UK.
And it was here when Keith Richards was just a young man that he bought his first steel string guitar - an 'f-hole archtop Hofner' - with 'blue boy' written on its face.
It was secondhand because of the patches and sweat marks on the fretboard.
It was soon after this purchase that Keith left it on either the Victoria Line or the Bakerloo Line on the London Underground!
I wonder who has it now?
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Keith's first Hofner guitar was bought in this very shop |
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