Fun fact

According to a YouTube home made documentary, John Lennon's first guitar, bought in 1957, cost £10. Taking inflation into account that's £243 in 2019 pounds, or $316 at current exchange rates. For a working class kid with a single parent, that's a tidy sum!  His second guitar cost £17 in 1959, which is £398 2019 pounds, or $517. That's almost as much as I recently paid for my bottom-of-the-line Gibson SG - and I'm comfortably middle-aged and lower middle class.