Guitars owned by Prince, Hendrix up for auction

Items expected to fetch up to £80,000

A guitar owned by American rocker Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch more than £80,000 ($101,000) when it goes under the hammer in London on Thursday, as part of the annual entertainment sale by Bonhams, a British auction house.

Purple Haze singer Hendrix, who died at the age of 27 in 1970, is said to have owned the Epiphone acoustic guitar for three years after purchasing it second-hand for $25 in New York City while on tour in 1967, Bonhams said.

“It was actually the guitar he owned for the longest period and because it’s an acoustic guitar, it is quite likely that he composed some of his songs on it,” Head of Bonhams entertainment department Katherine Schofield told Reuters.

A custom-made cloud guitar used on tour by the late American musician Prince is also up for auction in London on Thursday, carrying an estimate of £25,000 to £30,000. Other auction items include a flamboyant jacket worn by Rolling Stone’s Keith Richards, rare self-portrait caricatures of The Beatles signed by the band and a Boesendorfer piano played by Queen’s Freddie Mercury and Coldplay.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2016.

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