Pink Floyd fans ‘queuing round the block’ as David Gilmour flogs guitar collection for £17m in charity auction
PINK Floyd star David Gilmour’s guitar collection has fetched a record £17million at auction.
More than 120 instruments from his career went on sale, with fans queuing round the block in New York.
A 1969 black Fender Stratocaster, used on albums The Wall, Wish You Were Here, and The Dark Side of the Moon, went for a guitar record £3.1million.
The previous highest price was for Eric Clapton’s Black Strat Blackie, which went for £624,000 in 2004.
Gilmour’s 1954 white Fender Stratocaster used on Another Brick In The Wall sold for £1.43million.
The 73-year-old was raising funds for clean air campaigners Client Earth.
He said: “The climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming being irreversible.
"As Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, said in a speech earlier this year, ‘Either we choose to go on as a civilisation, or we don’t’.
"The choice is that simple.”
Christie’s delayed the start by an hour due to an unprecedented number of bidders queuing round the block in Rockefeller Center.
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