Prince's 'Purple Rain' guitar sells $A31,000


A guitar used by pop star Prince during his Purple Rain tour fetched STG12,000 ($A31,047) at auction.

The instrument was snapped up by comedian Ed Byrne, a spokeswoman for auctioneers Cooper Owen confirmed.

But "Lost Tapes" of John Lennon discussing the Beatles splitting were not sold after failing to meet the reserve price of STG15,000 ($A39,808.92).

Items connected to singer Elvis Presley, as well as a life jacket given to rock vocalist Courtney Love by dead Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, were also not sold for the same reason.

Printed flyers for the Sex Pistols' first US tour and press sheets sold for STG110 ($A289.74).


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I wonder which guitar this was ??? the white cloud which is now sitting on the wall in Paisley Park.???

It says "A" guitar, it could be some crappy standby incase all his good guitars broke

Hmm Interesting...!~!!

FunkyStrange said:

It was the flowery telecaster.

SUBMIT AS NEWS...SUBMIT AS NEWS.

It was the purple guitar with flowers on.

Sheila is the the person who put it up for auction. Broke?

Read here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/...065168.stm

Ed Byrne is an Irish comedian, he's very very funny. I've seen him live in Dublin a few times and on TV. He is a huge Prince fan (his site until very recently used to be completely purple) check out http://www.edbyrne.com

Here's what the link reports about the guitar:

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Musical value

The custom-made purple Telecaster-style guitar is elaborately decorated with airbrushed flowers and was used on the 1984-1985 Purple Rain Tour.

The auction house said the lot was sold directly from the collection of ex-New Power Generation drummer Sheila E.

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Interesting...maybe she needed the money 2 buy tickets 2 the Celebration...shit ain't cheap!

June7 said:

And you would know.

How could she sell that guitar? Had I been her I wouldn't...

why did sheila have the guitar in the first place?

Apollonia6 said:

Maybe he gave it to her as a gift.