Get ready to release your inner-bargain hunter…
His mammy knows him as David Evans, but we know him better as The Edge AKA That Guy In The Funny Hats, lead guitarist with U2.
He may now be one of the world’s most famous rock guitarists but, like the rest of us budding rock stars, even he had to start somewhere.
Whyte’s auctioneers in Dublin have announced that they will be selling a “learner’s classical guitar”, originally bought by a certain Gwenda Evans in the 1970s for her son David.
Speaking to The Irish Times, Stuart Purcell, a spokesman for Whyte’s, said “around 1980, when a teaching colleague of Gwenda’s in Scoil Íosa, Malahide, mentioned that she needed a guitar, as she was beginning lessons, Gwenda offered to sell her The Edge’s old one for the price she had bought it for.”
The lady in question initially paid around £20 for the instrument and even met The Edge years later, who kindly signed the guitar for her.
The unnamed lady has now decided to sell the instrument and it will go under the hammer in Whyte’s sale of ‘Rock, Pop & Movie Memorabilia’ in Dublin on 15 March, with the auctioneers assigning an estimate of between €1,200 and €1,800.
So start practising your auction skills right now, just so you’re able to… ahem… Edge out your opponents on the day. BOOM!
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