The estimated price of the guitar is said to be from $1..7 million at an auction in Qatar, it broke the world record for being the most expensive guitar ever sold.4 million, almost three times to its estimated price of $800,000. From the collection of John Lennon, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, and others, we bring you a list of the most expensive guitars and the interesting story behind the price tag. In 1971, the signer presented the guitar to his guitar technician Gary Carlsen who then founded a charity and gave the guitar away as a lottery prize.John Lennons Gibson J-160E — $2.Jimi Hendrix’ Fender Stratocaster - $2 millionThe popular guitarist picked up his Fender Stratocaster and rocked nc feeder the stage at the Woodstock music festival in 1969.4 MillionWith Beatles shooting to popularity, everything related to the band had dollar signs on them.7 millionWhen Fender Stratocaster guitar was sold for $2.2 millionOne of the most iconic singers of the world, Bob Marley surprisingly owned only seven guitars over the span of his career.

Fender "Reach Out to Asia" Stratocaster — $2. The instrument is declared as a national treasure by the Jamaican government. Later in 1998 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is said to have paid two million dollars for the iconic piece of history. The guitar used by John Lennon while recording the albums ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘With the Beatles’ was lost for 40 years.Keith Richards’ 1959 Les Paul Standard— $1 millionKeith Richards was the lead guitarist of one of the most popular English band The Rolling Stone and the guitar in question — Les Paul Standard was among the best in the market. The particular guitar was used to record songs like Little Red Rooster, Time is on My Side, The Last Time, Get Off My Cloud, that went on to be their earliest hits. Not a part of any singer’s personal collection, but for a cause by Reach Out to Asia foundation, the guitar was signed by Bryan Adams, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page and Brian May. When the guitar finally made a re-appearance in 1990, it was sold for just under a million dollars. It is one of the earliest and significant guitars in John Lennon’s career and was sold at an auction in 2015 for a whopping $2. The instrument was then said to be with the drummer named Mitch Mitchell for about three decades.

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