Slow Hand’s guitar makes a fast €791,000

BRITISH rock star Eric Clapton’s treasured Blackie became the most expensive guitar to sell at auction yesterday, fetching a staggering £527,000 (€791,000).

The classic Fender Stratocaster, which Clapton once said had “become part of me” was one of 88 instruments sold by the music legend and his friends at Christie’s auction house in New York.

Blackie, which accompanied Clapton on stage throughout the 1970s and 1980s, sold for well above the maximum estimate of £83,000 (€125,000).