![]() The proceeds that the tour would earn, Freedman said, would be used to support the performing arts. Shelling out the $6 million for Cobain’s guitar is Peter Freedman, the founder of Rode Microphones.įreedman said that the chance of buying Cobain's guitar was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and that he plans to take the prized guitar on a tour worldwide. The guitar that sold for a record high $3.95 million previously was the Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.Ĭobain's guitar was expected to fetch between $1 million to $2 million, and according to BBC, the bid started at $1 million in Los Angeles. He was 27 years old then.Īccording to Deadline, the sale has set a record as it sold for 50 percent higher than all of the guitars that have been auctioned so far. The concert was held just five months before Cobain was found dead in his home in Seattle in an apparent suicide. The 1959 Martin D-18E guitar that Kurt Cobain, Nirvana frontman, played during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert in 1993 has just sold for $6.01 million (£4.9m) in an auction last Saturday, June 20, 2020.
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