country gentleman

The Framus Hootenanny was among the few lost Beatles guitars unaccounted for: Others include the sonic blue Fender Stratocaster that Lennon used on “Ticket to Ride” and the Gretsch Country Gentleman that Harrison played on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

They can be counted on one hand: the sonic blue Fender Stratocaster Lennon used on “Ticket To Ride,” the Gretsch Country Gentleman that Harrison played on Ed Sullivan — and the “Help!”

Queen Victoria bought Sandringham for her eldest son, Edward, in 1862, largely in hopes that becoming a country gentleman would keep the playboy prince out of trouble in the nightspots of London, Paris, Monte Carlo and Biarritz.

“He ain’t a gonna help no women/He ain’t a gonna help no children/He’s just gonna help his rich friends,” Mellencamp sang on 1989′s “Country Gentleman,” a scathing indictment of President Ronald Reagan from the album “Big Daddy,” released amid the former president’s last year in office.

“Now,” he pursued, “concerning Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham, you must know, was a spoilt child. Her mother died when she was a baby, and her father denied her nothing. Her father was a country gentleman down in your part of the world, and was a brewer. I don’t know why it should be a crack thing to be a brewer; but it is indisputable that while you cannot possibly be genteel and bake, you may be as genteel as never was and brew. You see it every day.”