This same photo session captured John Lennon playing McCartney’s new instrument and was Lennon’s first brush with the Casino. Pictures taken of the Beatles in their dressing room during the Christmas shows in December of 1964 at the Hammersmith Odean Cinema in London show McCartney with his new early version sunburst Epiphone Casino with it’s “Gibson” shaped head stock and Bigsby (still strung right handed).
Paul McCartney purchased a Casino together with an Epiphone Texan acoustic in December 1964.
