A guitar used by David Gilmour on six of Pink Floyd’s albums has sold for a record $14.6m (£10.9m), making it the most expensive guitar ever sold, auction house Christie’s has said.
Gilmour played the 1969 Fender Stratocaster, nicknamed the ‘Black Strat’, on all of the British rock band’s albums between 1970 and 1983, including The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall.
The guitar sold to an unnamed buyer after 21 minutes of bidding, as part of a rock memorabilia auction in New York on Thursday.
A piano owned by the Beatles’ John Lennon also sold at the auction for $3.2 (£2.5m), believed to be the highest fee ever paid for a piece of Beatles memorabilia. (BBC)
Sunday, March 15, 2026