Fancy owning the guitar on which Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler wrote worldwide mega-hits Money For Nothing and Brothers In Arms? In January, that option will be open to you, and the rest of the world, in fairness, when Knopfler's guitar collection goes up for auction.
The collection, with estimated prices ranging from £300 to £500,000, will be sold by Christie's in London on January 31, with one quarter of the profits from the sale going to three charities, the British Red Cross, Tusk and Brave Hearts Of The North East.
"I’ll be sad to see them go," says Knopfler of his beloved axes, "but we’ve had wonderful times together and I can’t play them all."
According to a report in The Guardian, the star of the show at the auction, with an estimated price tag of £300,000-500,000, will be the 1959 vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard which Knopfler used on his Sailing to Philadelphia tour in 2001 and Kill to get Crimson tour in 2008.
