“The reaction to Ian Bairnson’s collection has so far surpassed interest to some of these mammoth names in the guitar world”: The Les Paul used on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights smashes estimates at auction
The 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom featured in Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights has just sold for £21,500 ($27,480) at auction. Pre-auction, the guitar was expected to fetch £10,000 ($12,781), before going under the hammer for £17,000 ($21,728).
As the story goes, Ian Bairnson used this guitar to play the solo at the end of Kate Bush’s breakthrough single, while his arm was in a plaster cast.
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