“This is the guitar I wrote and recorded Chasing Cars with”: Snow Patrol auctions off life-changing and career-defining Fender Telecaster for children’s charity

Gary Lightbody.

Snow Patrol guitarist Gary Lightbody has donated his life-changing Fender Telecaster to children’s charity, Cash for Kids, in a bid to raise vital funds for its Mission Christmas campaign.

It was with this 1978 Telecaster Deluxe that Lightbody wrote and recorded the band's 2006 hit, Chasing Cars, which catapulted them into the stratosphere.