Oasis guitar broken in Liam and Noel’s break-up argument sells for £325,000
nme.comOasis‘ Liam and Noel Gallagher that led to the band’s break-up has sold at auction for £325,000.The red Gibson ES-355 guitar was broken backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in August 2009, where the band notoriously cancelled their set at the last minute after Noel left the band with immediate effect.It was announced last month that the guitar would be going up for auction, with a starting price of €150,000 (£125,000).
Auctioneers were predicting that the item could go for as much as €500,000 (£415,000), but in the end it sold for €385,500 (£325,000).The auction was held by the Artpèges gallery, with founder Jonathan Berg saying that the guitar represented “a cult moment” in modern musical history, adding: “Things had been brewing for a while between the two brothers.
It exploded backstage, one of Noel’s guitars got broken and that led to the group breaking up.”The gallery’s co-founder Arthur Perault said that Noel 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 at the French festival, 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.
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