Cobains

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.The reconstructed left-handed guitar — covered in chips, scratches and the original three bandmembers’ inscriptions — garnered 31 bids and fetched $596,000 at auction Saturday, according to Julien’s Auctions. The iconic instrument, a headlining piece of a three-day music icons auction, was originally valued at $60,000 to $80,000. A spokesperson for the auction…

Guitar Smashed By Nirvana Frontman Kurt Cobain Sells For Nearly $600,000(Photo Credit –Facebook) A guitar smashed by US rock band Nirvana’s late frontman Kurt Cobain, in the early 1990s, was sold at an auction for nearly $600,000 – over 10 times of its estimated price, media reports said. The busted black Fender Stratocaster was sold at the auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York on Saturday and acquired for $596,900 by a buyer, whose identity is not known, the BBC reported. Cobain, who took his own life in 1994,…

As MTV News closes its shutters after 36 years, we cannot help but look back on some of the network's most memorable moments. One such moment that still reverberates with fans even today is the coverage of Nirvana's death by Kurt Loder in 1994. Through this story, we delve into the enduring impact of Loder's reporting and how it has stood the test of time to become the most-watched MTV News segment of all time. Screengrab of MTV News telecasting Kurt Loder covering death of music icon Kurt Cobain Kurt Loder was…

The owner of what one website calls the “greatest guitar collection on Earth” just shelled out millions to buy the guitar of Kurt Cobain, a late artist who famously hated everything about capitalism.Jim Irsay, owner and chief executive of the Indianapolis Colts, went above and beyond to purchase the 1969 Fender Mustang used by the Nirvana singer in the 1991 video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The left-handed guitar was sold at a Julien’s Auctions on Sunday for about $4.5 million, leaps and bounds above the original…