Kurt Cobain’s guitar from the ‘Smells LIke Teen Spirit’ video is headed to auction

Priscilla Presley gave a new biopic about Elvis Presley her stamp of approval. The 76-year-old recently took to Facebook and praised director Baz Luhrmann’s "Elvis," which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month ahead of Warner Bros. releasing the film theatrically on June 24.

pic.twitter.com/cjiec1Md0iTitled “Elvis,” the biographical film charts Elvis Presley’s life and career, specifically his relationship with his manager. Luhrmann co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner.

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Kurt Cobain in the video for Nirvana‘s 1991 hit ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is set to be displayed in London ahead of going to auction.As revealed last week, the left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang, in a Lake Placid Blue finish, will be up for grabs as part of Julien’s Auctions’ three-day Music Icons event, running from May 20-22 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York as well as online.Ahead of the auction, the guitar will go on display to the public for free later this month at the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus.From April 28-May 3, fans will be able to see the guitar played in the legendary video before it is sold in the United States.See opening times for the venue here, and watch the guitar in action in the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video below.According to Julien’s, a starting estimate of $600,000 to $800,000 is expected for the guitar. Cobain spoke highly of Mustangs, calling them his favourite guitar in a ’91 interview with Guitar World.“I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars,” Cobain told the publication.

played in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is set to go to auction — and, hello, hello, hello, early estimates are not low.The iconic blue guitar from the band’s iconic ’90s hit is headed to the block next month, and it’s expected to fetch bids as high as $800,000 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” went on to become an anthem of a generation and the grunge movement, which took in Cobain’s scruffy rock star persona and crowned him king. The left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang is arguably one of the most famous in rock and roll history, according to Martin Nolan, the executive director of Julien’s Auctions.

Want to own the guitar that Kurt Cobain played in the video to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’? Got $800,000 burning a big old hole in your pocket? Then read on my friend.The left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang that appeared in said video is among the musical items being auctioned off next month during a three day event called Music Icons being run in New York by Julien’s Auctions.The auction company’s CEO, Darren Julien, reckons that the guitar is “one of the most culturally significant and historically important guitars not only of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana’s legacy but in all of rock music history”.And, he adds, “rarely do personally owned items from Kurt Cobain, with this incredible and unprecedented provenance of his life and career, become available for public sale”.Bids for the guitar are expected to start somewhere between $600,000 and $800,000. Although given Julien’s Auctions has jumped on the NFTs bandwagon of late, you’d think they’d have attached an NFT to this sale too, wouldn’t you?Then bidding would probably start somewhere between $6 million and $8 million.

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Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s final days are being turned into an opera by the Royal Opera House in London.The production, called Last Days, will be a production adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name.The film, which was centred on a young musician called Blake, was loosely based on Cobain’s last days. Cobain died by suicide in 1994 aged 27.A description from the Royal Opera House says that the opera “plunges into the torment that created a modern myth” and that “Blake” is “haunted by objects, visitors and memories distracting him from his true purpose – self-destruction”.The opera has been composed by Oliver Leith, the Royal Opera House’s composer-in-residence.

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