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Gary Moore’s Showbiz Blues SG Junior set for auction
By Phil Weller published
Moore used the vintage ’61 SG Junior during prep for his tour with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, and can be heard on his 1995 Blues For Greeny tribute album

Eddie Van Halen’s long-lost Canada flag Music Man is going up for auction
By Phil Weller published
The guitar was custom-painted for a special Canada Day concert in 1993, and its whereabouts for the past three decades remain a mystery

Rory Gallagher’s iconic ’61 Fender Stratocaster is heading to auction for the first time ever
By Matt Owen published
As legend has it, Gallagher's Strat was the first to ever reach Irish soil, and it was used by the blues rock ace to cement himself as one of the all-time greats of guitar music

The Les Paul used on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights smashes estimates at auction
By Janelle Borg published
Ian Bairnson famously used the Gibson guitar to play the Wuthering Heights solo while his arm was in a plaster cast

Inside the Bernie Marsden guitar auction, featuring Squier Strats, a Greeny-esque ES-335 and more
By David Mead published
An epic collection of the former Whitesnake member’s guitars, amps and other highly collectable gear has just gone under the hammer – and we got up close and personal with his prized possessions

Up-close with the 1974 Martin guitar that Eric Clapton used to write Wonderful Tonight
By Jamie Dickson published
Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight is one of the great love songs of our time. So when the guitar he wrote it on, a 1974 Martin 000-28, came up for auction in London, we didn’t need a second invitation to go and take a closer look

Prince’s Cloud 3, which went for less than $10,000 in 2005, sells at auction for $900,000 more – and breaks a world record
By Jackson Maxwell published
The distinctively-shaped, extensively-used six-string eclipsed its initial estimated value by hundreds of thousands of dollars

John Lennon’s lost Help! Framus 12-string has become one of the most expensive guitars to ever sell at auction
By Matt Owen published
The influential instrument was found in an attic after 50 years, and tipped to oust Kurt Cobain's $6m Martin D-18e in the record books

Eric Clapton called it “the best-sounding acoustic guitar I’ve ever played” – now his personal Martin signature acoustic prototype is up for sale
By Janelle Borg published
One of only four acoustic guitar prototypes discovered so far, this Clapton-used model is expected to fetch $50,000 at auction
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