George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
Harrison was an English musician, singer and songwriter who
achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
On 29 November 2001, Harrison died at a property belonging
to McCartney, on Heather Road in Beverly Hills, California. He
was 58 years old.
2015
The guitar destroyed by Kurt Russell’s character was not a prop
but an antique 1870s Martin guitar lent by the Martin Guitar
Museum. According to sound mixer Mark Ulano, the guitar was
supposed to have been switched with a copy to be destroyed,
but this was not communicated to Russell; everyone on the set
was "pretty freaked out" at the guitar’s destruction, and actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh’s reaction was genuine, though "Tarantino
was in a corner of the room with a funny curl on his lips, because
he got something out of it with the performance."
Museum director Dick Boak said that the museum was not told
that the script included a scene that called for a guitar being s
mashed, and determined that it was irreparable.
The insurance remunerated the purchase value of the guitar
and as a result of the incident, the museum no longer lends
props to film productions.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Kurt Russell will be 74 in March.
Director Quentin Tarantino.
NEW YORK (TNND) — According to a family statement, Wayne
Osmond, who was one of the founding members of the family
act The Osmonds, died January 1 at the age of 73 after suffering
a massive stroke.
David Jon Gilmour (78)
Music memorabilia has always been popular with collectors,
and there have been several items with truly extraordinary
price tags.
According to Guitar World, a 1954 Fender Stratocaster owned
by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd sold for $1.8 million at a 2019
Christie’s auction, while one owned by Jerry Garcia of the
Grateful Dead sold for $1.9 million in 2017.
Famous guitars associated with a single iconic musical
performance have fetched huge prices at auction houses.
The biggest by far is the Martin D-18E acoustic played by
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain at the band’s “MTV Unplugged”
performance, which sold in 2020 for more than $6 million,
making it the most expensive guitar ever sold.
(by Daniel Bukszpan)
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)
The Grateful Dead in 1970, in a rural setting – Bill
Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia,
Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh.
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Los Angeles
seized more than $18 million in fake Gibson guitars in the
largest counterfeit musical instrument seizure in history.
Working with local and federal agencies at the LA/Long
Beach Seaport, agents intercepted the suspected cargo
arriving in ocean containers from Asia.
In total, agents seized more than 3,000 counterfeit guitars
and had they been genuine, the value would have been
more than $18.74 million.
(FOX NEWS)
