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Johnny Marr Guitar Collection Fetches £3.6 Million
Musician Johnny Marr raised £3,649,280 at an auction of his guitar collection for charity.
A guitar collection owned by musician Johnny Marr has fetched £3,649,280 at auction. The bidding event lasted for more than five hours and drew registered buyers from 34 different countries. The final total achieved was more than three times the initial estimated value, with the instruments raising nearly 4 million pounds overall. One hundred percent of the hammer price across 31 individual lots, which featured 10 guitars, was donated to two charities.
Marr used this specific guitar during the recording sessions for the debut album by The Smiths, as well as on the group's earliest tours. The Smiths released four studio albums before breaking up in 1987. Another lot, a 1960 Cherry Red Gibson ES-355 guitar owned by Marr, sold for £204,800.
This auction took place ahead of the upcoming release of Marr's new project, titled The Age Of Everything. Set to be released on October 2, the project marks his first studio album in four years.
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