Ongoing History Daily: Weird rock’n’roll auction items
Rock memorabilia is big, big business and auction houses on both sides of the Atlantic are always offering interesting and sometimes weird items for sale. Here are some examples.
- A Gibson ES 355 guitar owned by Noel Gallagher but smashed by Liam on the night the band broke up in Paris in 2009 sold for US$405,000. And yes, it was repaired before it went up for sale.
- A case of tequila autographed by Carlos Santana.
- A press clipping from a Dublin newspaper in 1978 that contains the first-ever mention of a new band called “U2.”
- And how about this: A collection of prescription bottles in the possession of Elvis Presley the night he died in August 1977.
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