{"id":789736,"date":"2026-10-02T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:04:08","slug":"oasis-mtv-unplugged-acoustic-guitar-sells-for-record-226800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789736\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis MTV Unplugged acoustic guitar sells for record \u00a3226,800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An acoustic guitar played by Noel Gallagher at Oasis&#8217;s 1996 MTV Unplugged gig, and signed by him, has sold at auction for \u00a3226,800 setting a &#8220;world record&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hertfordshire-based Propstore said it was the &#8220;highest price achieved at auction for an Oasis acoustic guitar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also sold a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20d5gqqvlyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha C3 Grand Piano<\/a>, for \u00a381,900 which was used by Freddie Mercury to compose Crazy Little Thing Called Love. It was expected to sell for at least \u00a3200,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the first day of its Music Live Auction on Thursday, the highest-selling lot was a notebook by the Queen frontman which contained handwritten working lyrics and notes from the Mr. Bad Guy recording sessions. It sold for \u00a3277,200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Hochman, the company&#8217;s music specialist, said: &#8220;Setting a world record with Noel Gallagher&#8217;s MTV Unplugged guitar is a fantastic result and a testament to the lasting connection fans have with Oasis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These results show how much collectors value pieces with a personal connection to the artists and their music.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An acoustic guitar played by Noel Gallagher at Oasis&#8217;s 1996 MTV Unplugged gig, and signed by him, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789736","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=789736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}