Price $375,000
Price $455,555
Price $570,000
This guitar was used by The Beatles between 1966 and 1969. George Harrison used it while recording and touring the album Revolver, while John Lennon used it during sessions for the White album. It was given away by George to Peter Ham, of the rock band Badfinger, and after his death lay undiscovered until 2002. It was sold to an anonymous bidder at auction in 2004, for a staggering $570,000.
Price $623,500
It raised $623,500 at auction to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua.
6. Eric Clapton's C.F. Martin & Co., circa 1939
Price $791,500
Another one of Clapton's guitars makes the top ten. The reason for this is that he is one of the few renowned guitarists who does actually sell their guitars - usually to raise money for the Crossroads Rehabilitation Centre. There are definitely guitars out there (belonging to Jimmy Page, Van Halen and so on) that could fetch more if they were sold, but they haven't been put up for sale as yet. This guitar was used by Clapton primarily during 1964, but only rarely after that. It fetched the highest price ever paid for a Gibson when auctioned.
Price $847,500
Price $959,500
Blackie was sold at auction in 2004, and became the world's most expensive guitar at $959,000.
estimated Price $1.2 to 2 million
Estimated Price $2 million
Hendrix played this guitar at Woodstock in 1969.
From 1970 until 1990 it was in the possession of his drummer Mitch Mitchell, before surfacing in 1990 at the opening of the new Fender Artist Centre complete with cigarette burns on the headstock, and Jimi's trademark upside down stringing. It sold at Sotheby's in the same year for $198,000. Rumour has it that Paul Allen (Bill Gates' right hand man at Microsoft) paid 2 million dollars for this guitar in 1998. There no telling what it could be worth now.
1. Reach out to Asia Fender Stratocaster
Price $3.7 million
This guitar was sold at auction in Qatar in 2005, to raise funds for Reach out to Asia, a charity set up to help tsunami victims. Co-ordinated by Bryan Adams, it is signed by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams himself. It was initially by the Qatari Royal family for $1 million and then donated back to the charity, after which it was sold again for a price of $2.7 million, meaning that this guitar has generated a total of $3.7 million dollars for charity.