Kurt Cobain's guitar played for MTV auctioned for $6 million

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Kurt Cobain’s treasured guitar that he played months before his death on Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged performance is sold for a whopping amount of $6 million at an auction. The guitar that Cobain played for the band’s acoustic performance and their live album was a 1959 Martin D-18E is sold to the owner of an Australian audio company named Rode Microphones, Peter Freedman. The auction was held at the Music Icons event ran by Julien’s Auctions in California. The bid that opened at $1 million for the sale ended up at collecting an eye-popping $6 million that broke several world records. The singer died at the age of 27, playing the same guitar for a show in New York that marked less than five months before the singer’s death. Also, at the same auction Elvis Presley’s famous belt was sold for a final bid of $298,000 that was nearly 10 times more than its expected price.

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