{"id":28635,"date":"2024-02-01T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/auction-of-mark-knopflers-guitars-brings-in-more-than-10-million\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T21:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:02:33","slug":"auction-of-mark-knopflers-guitars-brings-in-more-than-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/auction-of-mark-knopflers-guitars-brings-in-more-than-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction of Mark Knopfler\u2019s guitars brings in more than $10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-01\/Getty_MarkKnopfler_020124.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption> Francesco Prandoni\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dire Straits<\/strong>\u00a0frontman\u00a0<strong>Mark Knopfler<\/strong>\u00a0has made a pretty penny cleaning out his guitar closet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-68160058\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0reports that a recent auction of over 120 of the rocker\u2019s guitars and amps brought in over $10 million, with a quarter of that money\u00a0set to go\u00a0to charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knopfler&#8217;s 1959 Vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard was sold for the highest bid, at over $880,000, which wound up being a world auction record for that model of guitar. Another\u00a0big seller was the guitar Knopfler played at Wembley Stadium for\u00a0<strong>Nelson\u00a0Mandela<\/strong>&#8216;s 70th birthday tribute, which sold for over $640,000, well above the initial estimate of around $10,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so pleased that these much-loved instruments will find new players and new songs as well as raising money for charities that mean a lot to me,&#8221; Knopfler said. \u201cIt has been heart-warming to witness how much these guitars mean to so many people and I am also pleased that they will continue to give joy to many through the songs recorded over the years with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds, &#8220;To you fellow players, enthusiasts and collectors, I wish you all good things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charities benefiting from the auction include the Red Cross, the wildlife conservation organization Tusk and the children&#8217;s charity Brave Hearts of the North East.<\/p>\n<p>The auction comes as Knopfler is getting to release his 10th studio album,\u00a0<em>One Deep River<\/em>, on April 12. It will be his first new album since\u00a02018\u2019s\u00a0<em>Down The Road Wherever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Prandoni\/Getty Images Dire Straits\u00a0frontman\u00a0Mark Knopfler\u00a0has made a pretty penny cleaning out his guitar closet.\u00a0 The\u00a0BBC\u00a0reports that a recent auction of over 120 of the rocker\u2019s guitars and amps brought in over $10 million, with a quarter of that money\u00a0set to go\u00a0to charity.\u00a0 Knopfler&#8217;s 1959 Vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/auction-of-mark-knopflers-guitars-brings-in-more-than-10-million\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}