The first guitar ever set on fire by Jimi Hendrix has been sold at auction by £280,000.
Hendrix set fire to the guitar at a gig at the Astoria in Finsbury Park, London in March 1967. While roadies extinguished the flames and Hendrix was treated for minor burns, the star's press officer Tony Garland took it and stored it in his parents' garage and promptly forgot about it. It remained there until Garland's nephew discovered it last year.
The 1965 Fender Stratocaster went up for sale at the Idea Generation Gallery in London and was bought for £280,000, just over the estimate. The new owner, Daniel Boucher said: "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it, actually. I am going to play it, I hope some of it rubs off on me".