The guitar heard in the solo of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights debut track has sold for £21,500 - including fees - at auction. The 1974 Les Paul Custom was expected to attract bids of up to £10,000 at Gardiner Houlgate auctioneers in Corsham, Wiltshire, but went under the hammer for £17,000.

John Lennon's Framus Hootenanny 12-string acoustic guitar was used by Lennon and Beatles bandmate George Harrison during recording sessions for the bands' 1965 albums "Help!" and "Rubber Soul," according to Julien's Auctions, which sells celebrity pieces. The guitar was also seen in outtakes for the Beatles' comedy movie "Help!"

After appearing in multiple albums by the Beatles, the instrument was forgotten for more than 50 years before it turned up in the attic of a British countryside home.

John Lennon's lost guitar on display during a preview of the Julien's Auctions “Music Icons” collection. (Sarah Yenesel/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) A lost guitar once ...

John Lennon's "Help!" guitar, previously thought lost for 50 years, sold at auction for a record $2.9 million.

John Lennon’s missing guitar featured in The Beatles’ 1965 film “Help!” sold at an auction at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe Wednesday for over $2.8 million. Julien’s Auctions confirmed in a statement that the Framus Hootenanny 12-string acoustic guitar became the fifth most-expensive guitar ever sold.

John Lennon's guitar is up for saleIt has resurfaced after 50 yearsHERE are the details of the sale In an astonishing turn of events, a guitar once strummed by John Lennon (legendary musician of The Beatles) and lost for over half a century,