World's Most Expensive Guitar

The world's most expensive guitar is still a Stratocaster, but it's no longer Eric Clapton's Blackie. The title of most expensive now belongs to a new Strat recently sold at auction for $2.7 million USD in Doha, Qatar. The instrument was signed by a number of music celebrities, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and, Bryan Adams, but that's about as far as its celebrity connection goes (though it was Bryan Adams who organized the procurement and signing of the Strat).

It was sold to benefit a tsunami charity, Reach Out to Asia, and was bought by the royal family of Qatar, who had donated the instrument to the auction (they bought it at a previous charity auction for over a million).

The event was conducted by Sotheby's Henry Wyndham, who said, ""I have auctioned many items for charity in my life but never have I witnessed the levels we achieved tonight. This will stay in my memory for a very long time indeed."

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