“Lennon says, ‘Tell him we’ll put the guitar on our next album cover.’ The guy says, ‘Nope, sorry.’ The album was Sgt. Pepper’s”: The day the Beatles visited New York’s most legendary guitar store

The Beatles perform onstage at the Circus Krone-Bau in Munich, Germany on June 24, 1966.

Of all the storied guitar stores that once lined 48th Street in New York City, none had quite the pedigree of Manny's Music.

To list all of the store's notable clientele over the decades before its closure in 2009 would be a fruitless exercise – suffice to say, even the biggest of rock's big names walked through its doors at one point or another. And we do mean the biggest.