Last month, McCartney’s handwritten ‘Hey Jude’ lyrics sold for nearly $1 million, also at Julien’s Auctions. Kurt Cobain ’s guitar from Nirvana ’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance sold at auction Saturday for a record 6 million. Other items in the sale include Prince’s 1984 custom-made blue cloud guitar, which featured in his 1984 film Purple Rain (selling with an estimate of $100,000-200,000) and Paul McCartney’s handwritten working lyrics for ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ (estimate of $200,000-300,000). See also: Frank Sinatra's Piano Sells for Over £80,000 Prince’s 1984 custom-made blue cloud guitar is for sale in Julien’s Auctions’ Music Icons auction on 19-20 June. The storage compartment contains Cobain’s half-used pack of guitar strings, picks and a suede ‘stash bag’. Three baggage claim ticket stubs are attached to the handle, and an Alaska Airlines sticker is affixed to the case. The guitar comes with the original hard-shell case, which is decorated by Cobain with a flyer from the punk rock band Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel the Darkness. 18, 1993, Nirvana took a trip to New York City and taped their iconic Unplugged set for MTV. Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E, played during Nirvana’s historic ‘MTV Unplugged Performance’, is going under the hammer next month. The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band’s famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert is going under the hammer, with a starting estimate of 1m (810,000). Kurt Cobain Nearly Banned Dave Grohl From Performing at Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged’ Concert. Last year, the cardigan Cobain wore during this performance sold for $334,000, also at Julien’s Auctions. It is the headline for the Music Icons auction, to be hosted by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills across 19 and 20 June. In 2020, Julien’s Auctions also sold Cobain’s MTV Unplugged 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic-electric guitar for 6 million making it the world’s most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.
They cut this Lead Belly cover three years before the legendary acoustic rendition from Nirvanas Unplugged special. Now, this very guitar is going under the hammer, with a starting estimate of US$1 million (£815,000). Hear Mark Lanegan Duet With Kurt Cobain on ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’. He played it in what Rolling Stone called “his last self portrait”: “Surrounded by lilies, the flowers of death, Kurt Cobain sat on a soundstage almost five months before his suicide and made his last self-portrait.” Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d thinkparticularly when tragedy happens. 1 on the US Billboard charts, earn a multi-platinum certification, win the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996 and, still today, is consistently ranked among the top ten live albums of all time.ĭuring Nirvana’s flawless performance that night was Kurt Cobain’s mastery of the guitar, a 1959 Martin D-18E. He used it into the early 1990s.Īrchivists going through Prince’s possessions at his Paisley Park home and musical headquarters in Minnesota recently found the guitar that was thought to be lost during the four years since his death from an overdose at age 57.Īlso Friday, a macrame belt that Elvis Presley wore about 30 times on stage brought in nearly 10 times its expected price, with a final bid of $298,000, and an ivory gown worn by Madonna in her 1990 “Vogue” video sold for $179,200.On 18 November 1993, Nirvana produced one of the greatest live albums of all time: MTV Unplugged in New York. Presenta una actuación acústica grabada en Sony Music Studios en la ciudad de Nueva York el 18 de noviembre de 1993 para la serie de televisión MTV Unplugged. Prince played the blindingly blue guitar with the artist’s “love” symbol on its neck beginning on the 1984 Purple Rain Tour, as well as on the classic albums Lovesexy and Sign O’ The Times. Thanks to Unplugged, Cobain’s fans got a chance to replicate Love’s experience. MTV Unplugged in New York es un álbum en vivo de la banda de rock estadounidense Nirvana, lanzado el 1 de noviembre de 1994 por DGC Records.
Prince’s Custom Guitar From the 1980s Brings Big Dollars at AuctionĪ day earlier at the same auction event, a custom guitar played by Prince at the height of his stardom in the 1980s and 1990s sold for $563,500, a small sum compared with the Cobain guitar but well over the $100,000 to $200,000 it was expected to fetch.
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