Most expensive music memorabilia ever sold - £1.4m Beatles piano to £4.5m Nirvana guitar
dailystar.co.ukREAD NEXT: Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's Hollywood home on sale for less than $1millionItems once played by his former Beatles bandmates including Ringo Starr and John Lennon have sold at auction for eye-watering sums - with other music icons even purchasing the items themselves.As bidders head to the auction house to try purchase a part of music history, Daily Star takes a look at some of the most expensive music memorabilia ever sold.Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993 went down in history as one of the music series' greatest performances of all time.The performance, which took place just five months before singer Kurt Cobain died, saw the star play a retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E during the set.Now an important part of music history, the guitar later sold at Julien's Auctions in 2020 for a jaw-dropping £4.9m, and was won by Rode Microphones founder Peter Freedman.According to the BBC, Peter Freedman said he planned to take the guitar on a worldwide tour, with proceeds to go to supporting the performing arts.He also described buying the guitar as "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity", according to the auction house.Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour announced in 2019 that he was selling his entire guitar collection, with the intention to use the funds to fight climate change.Speaking at the time, he told NME: "These guitars have been very good to me.
They’re my friends. They have given me lots of music. "I just think it’s time that they went off and served someone else. I have had my time with them. "And of course the money that they will raise will do an enormous amount of good in the world, and that is my intention."In 2019, his black Fender Stratocaster guitar which was used on songs including.
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