{"id":258899,"date":"2020-06-22T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258899"},"modified":"2020-06-22T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:21:33","slug":"late-rock-stars-guitar-sells-for-record-6m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/22\/late-rock-stars-guitar-sells-for-record-6m-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Late rock star\u2019s guitar sells for record $6M at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258900\" style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/579px-Kurt_St_Thomas_1991_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258900\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/579px-Kurt_St_Thomas_1991_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/579px-Kurt_St_Thomas_1991_cropped.jpg 579w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/579px-Kurt_St_Thomas_1991_cropped-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Kurt Cobain, WFNX, 1991 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=81219782\">Photo By Julie Kramer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The guitar used by grunge rock band Nirvana&#8217;s star performer Kurt Cobain in a 1993 MTV Unplugged performance was sold Sunday for a record price.<\/p>\n<p>Australian businessman Peter Freedman paid USD6,010,000 for the 1959 Martin D-18E guitar at an auction.<\/p>\n<p>The initial price of the guitar, which Cobain played in November of that year, just five months before his death, was set at USD1 million.<\/p>\n<p>However, the world-famous singer&#8217;s fans along with investors competed in the auction and broke a new world record.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for the most expensive guitar ever sold was for a 1969 black Fender Stratocaster that belonged to Pink Floyd\u2019s David Gilmour which was sold for USD3.95 million at an auction in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cobain was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was born in 1967. The Nirvana frontman inspired a generation with his songs. In April 1994, he was found dead in his home at the age of 27 from suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 The guitar used by grunge rock band Nirvana&#8217;s star performer Kurt Cobain in a 1993 MTV Unplugged performance was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":258900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258901,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258899\/revisions\/258901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}