A custom guitar played by Prince at the height of his stardom in the 1980s and 1990s has sold for a staggering 563,500 US dollars (£456,300) at auction.
The Blue Angel Cloud 2 electric guitar skyrocketed beyond the estimate of 100,000 dollars to 200,000 dollars (£81,000-£162,000) it was expected to fetch at the Music Icons sale run by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills.
Prince played the blindingly blue guitar with the artist’s “love” symbol on its neck beginning on the 1984 Purple Rain Tour, on the classic albums Lovesexy and Sign O’ The Times.
He used it into the early 1990s. Archivists going through Prince’s possessions at his Paisley Park home and musical headquarters in Minnesota recently found the guitar that was thought to be lost
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