McCartney Times

Sir Paul McCartney’s bass guitar has sold at auction for a record-breaking $496,100.

The 79-year-old musician used the Yamaha BB-1200 in the studio and on tour with Wings, and when it was sold at the weekend, the instrument smashed the previously-held record highest selling price of a bass guitar, which was set last year when a 1969 Fender Mustang belonging to former Rolling Stones rocker Bill Wyman sold for $384,000.

And that wasn’t the only record broken at the auction, which was organised by U2’s The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin for their Music Rising charity.

A Lake Placid Blue Fender Telecaster destroyed by Eddie Vedder during a gig was sold for $266, 200, making it the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold at auction.

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