Never mind the rumoured $500 million sale of guitar maker Fender. If just one of its guitars is touched by the hand of God, it can raise $1 million by itself.
Eric Clapton?s fans in the 1960s proclaimed he was God. Now his treasured ?Blackie? Fender Stratocaster has fetched $959,500 at Christie?s in New York ? the record for a guitar.
It was only expected to attract $150,000 but started a bidding war. So who could afford to pay so much for one guitar? One of the Goldman Sachs bankers said to be looking for a buyer for Fender? No, in the end it went to The Guitar Center chain.
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