Of course, if a guitar has a stamp of approval from the finest musicians in history, then you can be almost certain that it is a good ax.
Why? It might have something to do with the fact that John Lennon, George Harrison, Keith Richards, and countless other world-famous guitarists have played it on some of their most famous recordings. It has been one of its bestselling guitars ever since then. Epiphone has been making this amazing hollow-body, archtop ever since 1961.