{"id":469707,"date":"2026-03-11T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469707\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:47:09","slug":"guitar-played-on-ghost-town-sells-for-thousands-after-being-bought-for-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469707\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar played on Ghost Town sells for thousands after being bought for \u00a3200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A guitar played on a famous 80s hit has sold for more than \u00a311,000 at auction after its previous owner bought it for \u00a3200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 1971 blue Fender Precision sold for \u00a311,376 after its previous owner spotted the Specials guitar in a music shop in Kettering and bought it for just a few hundred pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was played by Horace Panter in May 1981 to record the Coventry-based band&#8217;s seminal single Ghost Town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bass was sold at Gardiner Houlgate auctions in Corsham, Wiltshire, where auctioneers previously predicted it could fetch up to \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A guitar played on a famous 80s hit has sold for more than \u00a311,000 at auction after its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}