News Exercise #89

This week I decided to go for a very short dictation from the BBC. Can you complete all of these sentences?
It’s short but very fast!
A ____ ____ ____ ____ John Lennon when The Beatles ____ ____ ____ is ____ ____ ____ in the United States ____ ____ ____. ____ ____ Gibson ____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ in 2013, ____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____. It ____ ____ ____ ____ by an expert on Beatles instruments, ____ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ ____ ____, so ____ _____ ____ ____-____ ____: ____. Its ____ _____ ____ ____ ____.

Answer:
A favourite guitar lost by John Lennon when The Beatles first became famous is to be auctioned in the United States later this year. The acoustic Gibson turned up in a secondhand shop in 2013, fifty years after it went missing during a Christmas gig in London. It has been declared genuine by an expert on Beatles instruments, matched against photographs and film footage of Lennon playing it, so it has that all-important stuff – provenance. Its auctioneers expect a record price.