You can’t always get what you want... unless you have a spare £ 1m for Keith’s old guitar
AN electric guitar used by Keith Richards to record a Rolling Stones album and to go on tour in the 1970s is expected to sell for £ 1million.
The instrument was made for the legendary hellraiser in 1977 and used to record the album Some Girls.
He also performed with it during The Rolling Stones’ 1978 US tour and used it in the music videos for hits Miss You and Far Away Eyes.
The guitar was fashioned for Richards by the late luthier Ted Newman Jones, who did the same for Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Eric Clapton
It has a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard and an inset on the back which reads N77, its year of make.
Richards kept hold of it until 1981 when he gifted it to guitar manufacturer David Schecter who was producing a new instrument for him.
Schecter in turn sold it to a radio executive known only as “Doc”.
Richards signed the body of the guitar with the words: “To Doc. love & prescriptions, Keith Richards.”
It has since passed into the ownership of a private collector who is now selling it with US
auctioneers Nate D Sanders and is expected to fetch £ 1million when it is sold tomorrow.
A Nate D Sanders spokesman said: “This is one of the very few guitars used by Richards with the Stones ever to be sold.”
Richards is photographed holding the guitar in the book Rolling Stones Gear: All the Stones’ Instruments From Stage To Studio by musician and author Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost. Mr Babiuk has provided a letter of authenticity, giving the history of the guitar.