An Eric Clapton collectible guitar was purchased for $ 625,000 in New York City. It is the highest price of an auction devoted to rock legends held Friday and Saturday and which totaled nearly 5 million dollars, announced the company Julien’s Auctions.
The sale took place at the Hard Rock Café in New York but also on the Internet. Announced as the highlight of this sale, this acoustic guitar, a Martin D-45, strummed by Clapton in 1970 during a first live concert by his group Derek and The Dominos, was estimated between 300,000 and 500,000 dollars by Julien’s.
SOLD for $625,000. A guitar previously owned by Eric Clapton & played by him during the debut live concert of Derek and The Dominos
Sold in our “Icons & Idols: Rock ‘N’ Roll” auction taking place today and tomorrow at the Hard Rock Cafe NYC and online at https://t.co/TiME89MqlX. pic.twitter.com/XNe06fZfRz
– Juliens Auctions (@JuliensAuctions) November 19, 2021
Far from Kurt Cobain’s semi-acoustic record
Its selling price remains much lower than the record for a guitar, reached by the semi-acoustic on which the singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had played during the famous concert “MTV Unplugged” in 1993 (6 million dollars in 2020 at Julien’s Auction). Rock and blues legend Eric Clapton has been controversial since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, displaying positions considered anti-ax and opposing confinements.
Other guitars sold included a 1976 Gibson Explorer from “The Edge”, used by U2, which sold for $ 437,500, and a Fender Stratocaster that Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour played on, sold for $ 200,000. Nearly 1,000 lots and various objects passed through the hands of the Beatles, Guns N’Roses, Nirvana, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, were sold during these auctions.
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