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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Guitar ‘smashed up’ by Liam Gallagher on night Oasis split up goes to auction

Propstore’s chief executive, Stephen Lane, holding Noel Gallagher's cherry red guitar
Propstore’s chief executive, Stephen Lane, holding Noel Gallagher's red Gibson ES-355 guitar, which has since been repaired. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

The Gallagher brothers might have reconciled to embark on a record-breaking world tour, but one artefact that recalls the more fractious times in their relationship is about to come back into the public eye.

A guitar that Noel says was “smashed up” by Liam on the night Oasis broke up after a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009 is going to auction. The 1960s red Gibson ES-355 guitar is estimated to fetch up to £500,000.

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