A guitar bought by the late George Harrison for £58 and used in the early days of The Beatles has sold for over £1 million at auction.

Julien's Auctions originally priced the guitar between $600,000 to $800,000, meaning it sold for nearly double the lower end of its estimate. The $1.27 million price tag makes it

George Harrison's early Futurama guitar set a world record for most expensive Harrison guitar ever sold at auction.

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about 58 British pounds ($73) has sold at auction for more than 1 million British pounds ($1.27 million).

The first song that George Harrison wrote for The Beatles is 1963's 'Don't Bother Me' which he would later criticise by saying it wasn't "particularly good".

The Quiet Beatle’s 1958 Resonet Futurama solid body electric guitar was up for sale at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as part of Julien’s Auctions Played, Worn & Torn II two-day event.