A guitar smashed by US rock band Nirvana’s late frontman Kurt Cobain, within the early Nineties, was bought at an public sale for practically $600,000 – over 10 occasions of its estimated worth, media studies stated.
The busted black Fender Stratocaster was bought on the public sale on the Exhausting Rock Cafe in New York on Saturday and bought for $596,900 by a purchaser, whose identification is just not identified, the BBC reported.
Cobain, who took his personal life in 1994, destroyed the guitar as Nirvana was engaged on their break-out album Nevermind within the early Nineties.
The instrument, which has been put again collectively however is now not playable, is signed by all three band members in a silver marker. It additionally options an affectionate inscription by Kurt Cobain to his buddy and musical collaborator Mark Lanegan – who died final yr.
Cobain, who usually misspelt his personal identify, signed the instrument “Kurdt Kobain”.
Based on the public sale home, Cobain gave the guitar to Lanegan throughout the North American leg of Nirvana‘s Nevermind tour in 1992.
Two years in the past, the acoustic guitar Cobain used for his legendary MTV Unplugged efficiency in late 1993 bought for $6 million.
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