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He recorded the solos for “Money,” “Time” and “Comfortably Numb” on it, and he has said the psychedelic masterpiece “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” “popped out of it,” explained Caitlin Graham, Christie’s pop culture specialist. Gilmour played it on every subsequent Pink Floyd album through the 1980s. Gilmour flew to New York to buy a new guitar and bought this one at Manny’s Music on 48th Street.

During Pink Floyd’s third US tour - the band’s first with Gilmour - their equipment was stolen in New Orleans. Christie’s previewed the auction with a press tour Friday.Īlready generating the most buzz and expected to fetch the biggest payout is Gilmour’s 1969 black Fender Stratocaster, known simply as “The Black Strat,” which the auction house estimates at $100,000-$150,000. It will be a wrench to see them go and perhaps one day I’ll have to track one or two of them down and buy them back!”įans can check out the collection at Christie’s Rockefeller Center showroom until June 19. By auctioning these guitars I hope that I can give some help where it is really needed and through my charitable foundation do some good in this world. “Guitars were made to be played and it is my wish that wherever they end up, they continue to give their owners the gift of music. They have paid for themselves many times over, but it’s now time that they moved on,” Gilmour said in a promotional video for the auction. “These guitars have been very good to me and many of them have given me pieces of music over the years. They’ll be sold at auction at Christie’s New York on June 20. Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead release unseen footage for quarantined fansĪlan Parsons talks about abandoned Pink Floyd albumĪccording to a classic Pink Floyd song, “Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.” But the band’s legendary guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour is turning that sentiment on its head by selling off more than 120 of his guitars to benefit his charitable foundation. Roger Waters slams bandmate for 'banning' him from Pink Floyd website

5.Eric Clapton's "Blackie" Stratocaster Hybrid ($1.Roger Waters turns down 'huge money' for Facebook ad: 'No f-kin' way'.

4.Bob Dylan's 1964 "Newport Folk Festival Stratocaster" ($1.4 million).

3.John Lennon's 1962 Gibson J-160E acoustic-electric ($3.5 million).

2.Reach Out to Asia Fender Stratocaster ($3.9 million).

1.David Gilmour's Black Strat ($5.7 million).

"We need a civilised world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung." The top five most expensive guitars of all time (via Guitar Player) "The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming being irreversible," Gilmour said in a statement. Proceeds of the auction will go to the charity ClientEarth, which funds environmental lawyers and experts in the fight against climate change.

The latter also wildly exceeded its $40,000-70,000 estimated auction price, selling for over $580,000. Other highlights included Gilmour's Martin D-35 acoustic guitar, which sold for more than $1 million, and his 1955 Gibson Les Paul, famously used for the guitar solo on Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2). The musician's legendary "Black Strat" Fender Stratocaster guitar - used on the recording of the band's hit albums, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979) - was the standout lot, selling for $US3,975,000, which is a new world record for a guitar at auction. The record-breaking sale took place at Christie's auction house in New York City, on Thursday and included iconic instruments played by Gilmour throughout Pink Floyd's history. Gilmour raised over $30 million for charity after auctioning off more than 120 lots from his personal collection.