The Edge donates Epiphone guitar to Stuart Adamson fundraiser
U2 guitarist, The Edge, has donated an Epiphone guitar from his collection to a charity auction in aid of the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland and the youth academy at Dunfermline Football Club. The auction is part of a tribute to former Skids guitarist and Big Country front man, Stuart Adamson, who died in Hawaii in 2001.
Image: The Edge by Bob Weasel
The Epiphone Casino
The Epiphone Casino is a wonderful hollow-bodied electric guitar first made in 1958 and based on the Gibson ES-330. It’s probably most famous for being played by three Beatles between 1965 and 1967. (You can probably guess that Ringo Starr was the odd Beatle out.) In fact, John Lennon loved his so much, he used it for the rest of his time with the band, favouring it over the Rickenbacker 325 he’d been using up to that point.