Jimi Hendrix's guitar sells for half a million
Posted by: DemonDust on 05/09/'08 15:48
Source: Blabbermouth.net
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The Press Association reports that the first guitar set alight on stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix has been sold at auction for �280,000 (approximately $495,000).

Hendrix torched the 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of his show at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967.

After tense bidding at the Fame Bureau's It's More Than Rock And Roll auction at the Idea Generation Gallery in east London, the guitar was snapped up by American collector Daniel Boucher. He said: "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it, actually. I am going to play it, I hope some of it rubs off on me."

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