Noel Gallagher‘s guitar, which was damaged backstage on the night Oasis‘ split in Paris in 2009, is being auctioned off.The band were slated to headline Rock en Seine at the time, but Noel clashed with brother Liam, minutes before their scheduled appearance and a guitar got damaged in the process.The red Gibson ES-355 has since been repaired and is set to go under the hammer on May 17, with a starting price of €150,000 (£125,000).
Auctioneers are predicting that the item could go for as much as €500,000 (£415,000).Arthur Perault, a co-founder of the Artpèges gallery, which is holding the auction said Gallagher got rid of the guitar in the end, because “it reminds him too much of Oasis”, according to The Guardian.Oasis split after the row with Noel recently recalling how he sat in the back of a car at the music festival before he decided it was time to quit the band.“And the driver pulled off and that was it.
I didn’t feel a sense of relief because I knew there was a shitstorm coming. And there was going to be a lot of nonsense talked about it,” he said.“One of the biggest bands ever imploded, finally.
And I couldn’t go back to England because the press had descended on my house and my missus was there with my kids.”He added: “So we had to kind of spirit her out in the middle of the night and they came to join me in France somewhere.
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