Kurt Cobain’s left-handed 1969 blue Fender Mustang will go under the hammer with Julien’s Auctions at the end of May as part of the auction house’s three-day Music Icons event.
Cobain can be seen playing the guitar in the music video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, which depicts a riotous high school pep rally inspired by Jonathan Kaplan’s 1979 film Over The Edge and the Ramones’ film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. The video was many fans’ first introduction to Nirvana, with the track launching the trio to global fame. However, after enjoying years of success, Cobain committed suicide in 1994 at the age of just 27.
In the musician's final interview with Guitar World, Cobain said, “I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favourite."
