A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly ... Beautiful as a Rock / in a Cop’s Face” has been displayed at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.

Love, your pal Kurt Cobain/Washed up rock star.” Cobain is seen playing an electric guitar similar to the smashed Fender during a concert in Australia in 1992. Jason Childs The guitar’s neck ...

Kurt Cobain ... the broken guitar was sold at Julien's Auctions for a whopping $596,000 — nearly 10 times more than the opening price — showing that the adoration for the rock icon is alive ...

The guitar had been played, and the destroyed, by Cobain during a small benefit concert in Olympia, Washington, four months before his band, Nirvana, recorded its ground-breaking, best-selling ...

Kurt Cobain's smashed guitar, a white Fender Stratocaster ... from Texas-paid an impressive $101,500 to own this piece of rock history. The auction ignited intense competition as five bidders ...

A guitar played by Kurt Cobain during a recording session in November 1991 in Hilversum, North Holland, seen in one of the ...

Other Cobain guitar gear goes for much more. Get the Loudwire newsletter and Loudwire app for the latest rock and metal news. Auction Plans for Old Melvins Tour Van With Kurt Cobain Art Might ...

At the Royal College of Music Museum in London, Kurt Cobain’s acoustic ... which was curated by rock journalist Alan di Perna and Royal College of Museum Curator Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, explores the ...

By Gil Kaufman One of Kurt ... “Kurt Cobain Unplugged” exhibit — which opens on June 3 and runs through Nov. 18 — will feature the late Nirvana singer’s rare Martin D-18E guitar, which ...

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had ... Culture in Seattle, Cobain’s hometown. It contains a white bumper sticker that reads “Vandalism: Beautiful as a Rock / in a Cop’s Face.” ...

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt ... a piece of rock and pop culture history, an artifact of a band that defined an era and genre of music. Even though Cobain would ...

The auction house said it had expected the instrument to sell for $60,000 at the event in front of a live audience at the Hard Rock ... guitar down,” Frederick told AFP earlier in May. “Kurt ...