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Fraser Lewry

David Gilmour's iconic black Strat has just sold for $14.5 million and is now the most expensive guitar ever

Guitars from the Jim Irsay Collection on show at Christie's auction house in Los Angeles.

David Gilmour's iconic black Stratocaster has sold for $14.5 million at Christie's in New York, becoming the most expensive guitar ever sold in the process.

The guitar, which Gilmour played on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall – where it featured on the iconic solo from Comfortably Numb – was sold as part of an auction of guitars belonging to the late Jim Irsay, former owner of NFL team the Indianapolis Colts, who died last year.

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