Arteconciencias: Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Fender Mustang sells at auction for $4.5 million

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May 23, 2022

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The second most valuable guitar ever sold at auction

On the surface, the 1969 Lake Placid Blue Fender Mustang that made headlines after being sold at auction this past weekend doesn't look like much. The unassuming, slightly beat-up offset has quite the history, though – it happens to be the guitar that Kurt Cobain wielded in the none-more-iconic music video for Nirvana's earth-shattering smash hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Even with that incredible history though, its eventual sale price of $4.5 million is quite staggering. Behind only one of Cobain's other guitars – the Martin D-18E he used during Nirvana's legendary Unplugged set – the Mustang is the second most valuable guitar ever sold at auction. Just goes to show you can never judge a book by its cover...

Jackson Maxwell – Associate Editor, guitarworld.com

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