Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ guitar up for sale, cigarette burns included

Another fallen tree brings traffic to standstill in KL’s Golden Triangle, less than a week after Jalan Sultan Ismail incidentClaire Tole-Moir, head of Bonham's Popular Culture department, poses for a photograph with Eric Clapton 's 1974 000-28 Martin acoustic guitar, on which he wrote the song ‘Wonderful Tonight’, at Bonhams auction house, ahead of the ‘Rock, Pop & Film’ auction on June 12, in London May 13, 2024.

Among its listed distinguishing marks are burns on the headstock, left by the cigarettes Clapton stuck under the strings. The guitarist - who performed with the English R&B group The Yardbirds in the early 1960s, then with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, supergroups Cream and Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos and as a solo artist - acquired the instrument in the mid 1970s, auctioneer Bonhams said.He used it to compose songs, including his 1977 hit about model Pattie Boyd, Bonhams added.

“Clapton is... one of the greatest living guitarists of all time and so to have a guitar that’s from such a pivotal time in his career and attached to such a pivotal song is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Claire Tole-Moir, head of Bonhams’ Popular Culture department, told Reuters on today. — Reuters

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