John Lennon's Steel Resonator Guitar

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John Lennon played this guitar onstage at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally. In July 1969, Sinclair was sentenced to prison for 9½ - 10 years for giving two marijuana cigarettes to undercover narcotics officers. On Dec. 10, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono headlined a benefit concert in front of 20,000 people at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Two days later, John Sinclair was released from prison.

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