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Bonhams is excited to announce the sale of two iconic guitars once owned by superstars Jimi Hendrix and Prince. The instruments are among the highlights in Bonhams? Entertainment Memorabilia auction on 15 December in Knightsbridge, London.
Jimi Hendrix?s longest-owned guitar (estimated at £80,000-120,000) will lead the sale. An Epiphone acoustic in sunburst finish, it was in Hendrix?s possession for almost three years ? longer than any other guitar used in his short but ground-breaking career. Jimi paid for this 1951 Epiphone with money earned from the legendary Monterey International Pop Music Festival and subsequent American concerts. It was bought, as Noel Redding recalled, ?second hand, for about $25, in New York after our first tour of the States?.
Jimi's return home with new guitars was no surprise to girlfriend Kathy Etchingham. She remembered it was ?used very, very heavily, continuously, all the time? at their Upper Berkeley Street flat. Use of an amp was restricted for fear of a second eviction (they had been moved out of their previous flat following noise complaints) and so the Epiphone was vital. As Etchingham noted, ?Jimi used it for almost everything he composed in this country ... He constantly played it to work out riffs and song arrangements including his own version of Dylan's All Along The Watchtower.?
The Epiphone can be identified in various photographs and amateur film footage exists showing Jimi playing Elvis Presley?s Hound Dog on this guitar at the party following The Experience's Royal Albert Hall concert of February 1969. The following year, in March 1970, Jimi gave the Epiphone to Alan Parker, guitarist with Blue Mink. The guitar was subsequently used by Parker on numerous recordings and film soundtracks including those by Dusty Springfield, Walker Brothers, Blue Mink, Paul McCartney and on David Bowie's Diamond Dogs. The Epiphone is sold with a hard case marked A. Parker.