{"id":12579,"date":"2026-03-13T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:35:51","slug":"david-gilmours-black-strat-breaks-auction-record-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2026\/03\/david-gilmours-black-strat-breaks-auction-record-again\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour&#8217;s &#8220;Black Strat&#8221; breaks auction record (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/black-strat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/black-strat.jpg\" alt=\"The Black Strat\" width=\"200\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/black-strat.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/black-strat-97x300.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/black-strat-331x1024.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>David Gilmour<\/strong>&#8216;s fabled &#8220;Black Strat&#8221; is, once again, the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The Fender Stratocaster Gilmour played on a bevy of classic Pink Floyd recordings as well as during concert performances sold yesterday for $14.55 million at a Christie&#8217;s auction of previous owner <strong>Jim Irsay<\/strong>&#8216;s collection of musical and cultural rarities.<\/p>\n<p>It first became the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction in 2019 when it sold for $3.975 million as part of a Gilmour&#8217;s charity auction that raised approximately $21.5 million for ClientEarth, an organization that funds attorneys and other experts to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was surpassed by the 2020 auction of the\u00a0Martin D-18E acoustic<strong> Kurt Cobain<\/strong> played on &#8220;MTV Unplugged,&#8221; which sold for $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Strat is just one of a bevy of items being auctioned through March 17, following the death of Indianapolis Colts owner and collector Irsay last May.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/events\/the-jim-irsay-collection\/about\">browse the collection and watch live streams of the remaining auctions at the Christie&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Gilmour&#8216;s fabled &#8220;Black Strat&#8221; is, once again, the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. The Fender Stratocaster Gilmour played on a bevy of classic Pink Floyd recordings as well as during concert performances sold yesterday for $14.55 million at a Christie&#8217;s auction of previous owner Jim Irsay&#8216;s collection of musical and cultural rarities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12584,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}