TracksAuction.com announced yesterday that John Lennon’s Gretsch 6120, the guitar that the famous musician played on the recording of “Paperback Writer” is to be auctioned on November 14.

According to media reports, this significant instrument is expected to fetch as much as 1 million dollars.

The owner of the guitar, David Birch, is John Lennon’s cousin, to whom the famous Beatle gave the instrument about a year after the popular song was recorded in April 1966, at London’s Abbey Road studios.

Mr Birch said: “I was just cheeky enough to ask John for one of his spare guitars. I had my eye on a blue Fender Stratocaster lying in the studio, but John suggested the Gretsch and gave it to me.”