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 ...

Cobain proposed a trade for his Mustang, an offer Sluggo wisely accepted. Kurt even sloppily inscribed the body of the guitar in Sharpie: “Yo Sluggo, Thank for the Trade! IF its illegal to Rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

A guitar smashed onstage by the late Kurt Cobain during ... it goes to auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on November 11, Julien’s Auction said. Cobain used the 1973 Fender Mustang ...

An electric guitar played, smashed and then signed by the legendary Kurt Cobain sold for nearly half ... Thank for the trade / If it's illegal to Rock and Roll, then throw my ass in jail / Nirvana.'" ...

A Fender Stratocaster guitar ... as a Rock / in a Cop’s Face” has been displayed at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Last year, billionaire Jim Irsay spent $4.5 million on Cobain ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...