Kurt Cobain’s smashed black Fender Stratocaster fetches ‘astounding’ near-$600k at auction
Kurt Cobain’s smashed black Fender Stratocaster fetched an “astounding” sum of nearly $600,000 at auction. The battered guitar was destroyed as Nirvana were working on their break-out album ‘Nevermind’ in the early 1990s and was sold at the Hard Rock Café in New York after it was projected to sell for a fraction of the final amount. Kody Frederick from Julien’s Auctions said about the way late rocker Kurt, who took his life aged 27 on 5 April 1994, treated his instruments: “The man was angry, and you could feel that on stage. And you would feel that by the way he would treat his instruments. T...