To say the least, today's highly anticipated auction of David Gilmour's personal guitar collection rocked the guitar world from the get-go ? and it just kept on going.
The biggest news of the morning was the $1,095,000 sale of Gilmour's 1969 Martin D-35, the same guitar heard on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, most notably on the album's iconic title track. Despite starting off with a pre-sale estimate of $10,000 to 20,000.
But the undisputed star of the auction was Gilmour's legendary 1969 Black Strat, which took in a mammoth $3,975,000 by the end of the day, establishing a new world auction record for any guitar sold at auction ? ever.
