A guitar solo worth £21,500

The guitar with which Ian Bairnson played the solo in Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights has now been auctioned. From BBC News:

The guitar heard in the solo of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights debut track has sold for £21,500 - including fees - at auction.

The 1974 Les Paul Custom was expected to attract bids of up to £10,000 at Gardiner Houlgate auctioneers in Corsham, Wiltshire, but went under the hammer for £17,000.

Guitarist Ian Bairnson - who died last year aged 70 - played the piece with a broken arm.

Auctioneer Luke Hobbs said the price in the end "was quite deserved, in my opinion

Explaining how much the background of a guitar can change the price, Mr Hobbs said: "The guitar itself - in original condition - is worth probably £5,000. With the modifications that it had, probably more like £3,000-4,000.

"That guitar has done significant work over the years," he added.

A tribute to Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, Bush's debut song Wuthering Heights surpassed all expectations when it was released in 1978, becoming the first UK number one to be written and performed by a female artist.

It was at number one in the charts for four weeks.

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