Beatle John Lennon's last piano played for first time in decades
The piano was the last instrument John Lennon is known to have played before his death in 1980. The last piano ever used by John Lennon before he died is set to be played for the first time in 30 years. The New England Piano Company upright has been at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool since 2015.
The former Beatle used it at the Record Plant studios in New York for his last album, Double Fantasy, released shortly before his death in 1980. Brad Kella, winner of Channel 4's The Piano, will be at the museum to play his own arrangement of the famous Lennon hit Imagine later.
Kella, 24, told the BBC he had been a Beatles fan since childhood, growing up in the Merseyside town of Bootle and later Fazakerley in north Liverpool. He said: "It's just something that's embedded into anyone that's in the city. It's just an honour to be able to say I've touched the same instrument.
"I think it's the last instrument he touched before he died, as well, so it's just an honour to be able to follow in those footsteps." Brad Kella, in a grey hoodie and baseball cap, plays the piano.
Source: bbc.com/Marc Waddington
