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Johnny Marr’s guitar collection – including several iconic Smiths guitars – sells for almost $5m at auction

By Phil Weller Published

Guitars and amps with ties to the Smiths and his solo career have gone to new homes – and he’s happy many guitars fetched more humble prices

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Johnny Marr pictured with one of his many Fender Jaguars.
Johnny Marr on the guitars he’s loved and is about to lose at auction – and the one that started it all

By Jamie Dickson Published

The indie-rock icon talks hungover shopping trips with Noel Gallagher, why some electrics feel like ‘living things’, and what he’ll do if a tech bro starts bidding at his forthcoming auction

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Johnny Marr Christie's Auction September 2026
Johnny Marr to sell nearly 100 pieces of gear at auction – including some prized Smiths-era guitars

By Phil Weller Published

Guitars that have featured on some of the Smiths’ biggest songs, and moonlighted in Oasis, are up for grabs

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John Lennon's 1963 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins
The magical mystery of the $1.3m Gretsch that might have recorded a Beatles classic

By Jamie Dickson Published

Amelia Walker of Christie's takes us behind the scenes at the Jim Irsay auction to look at the 1963 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins that was rumored to have been used on Paperback Writer

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The Jim Irsay Collection's three big stars of the night [L-R]: Kurt Cobain's 1969 Mustang, David Gilmour's record-breaking Black Strat, and Jerry Garcia's Tiger.
World record for most expensive guitar shattered three times in one night as Jim Irsay auction sees David Gilmour's Black Strat fetch $14.5m

By Jonathan Horsley Published

On any other night, $6,907,000 for Kurt Cobain's Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang and $11,560,000 for Jerry Garcia's “Tiger” would have been world records. But this wasn’t any other night...

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Jim Irsay Guitar auction - Christie's 2026
Getting up-close with a $10m trio of guitars once wielded by Kurt Cobain, Eric Clapton and David Gilmour

By Phil Weller Published

The truly iconic guitars are due to go under the hammer at Christie's soon – and Guitarist got an exclusive look ahead of the sale

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Musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd, guitar detail of David Gilmour's 'Black Strat which was used to record the Pink Floyd album 'Wish You Were Here,' performs onstage during the Jim Irsay Collection Exhibit and Concert at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on January 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California
Details emerge of the historic guitars in the Jim Irsay Collection auction

By Janelle Borg Published

Compiled over decades by the late billionaire businessman and Indianapolis Colts owner/CEO, the Jim Irsay Collection has achieved a mythical status for its rich trove of historic guitars

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English guitarist Keith Richards of rock group The Rolling Stones plays a Gibson Les Paul guitar with Bigsby Vibrato on the set of the ABC Television pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England on 21st March 1965
The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to have solved the mystery of the Rolling Stones' 1959 Gibson Les Paul – which Mick Taylor alleges has been missing for decades

By Janelle Borg Published

The guitar, which was famously played by Keith Richards on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, was thought to have been stolen in 1971 – a rock 'n' roll legend which the Met refutes

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Tash Perrin, Deputy Chairman, Christie’s Americas one of the auctioneers overseeing the sale of one of Jeff Beck’s Les Paul guitars
Jeff Beck's guitar collection has sold for an astounding $10.7 million at auction – complete with a record-breaking Les Paul sale

By Janelle Borg Published

The mega-auction, which included over 130 guitars, amps, and ‘tools-of-the-trade,’ saw some of Beck's most noteworthy guitars – including his ‘Oxblood’ Gibson Les Paul and ‘Anoushka’ Strat – go under the hammer

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Left to right, Jeff Beck playing: the ‘Oxblood’, his 1954 Gibson Les Paul, Crystal Palace Garden Party, September 1973; playing his Fender Custom Shop White Stratocaster known as ‘Anoushka’, in 2013; and playing the ‘Yardburst’, his circa 1958 Gibson Les Paul, at The Fillmore West, July 1968, on tour with The Jeff Beck Group
Over 130 of Jeff Beck's guitars, amps and gear – including his ‘Oxblood’ Gibson Les Paul – are heading to auction

By Janelle Borg Published

From his ‘Yardburst’ Les Paul to his ‘Anoushka’ Strat, the auction of Beck's collection celebrates the guitar icon's trailblazing career – with one of his most famous guitars expected to fetch up to $632,000

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