Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar to go under the hammer

Kurt Cobain’s 1969 Fender Mustang Competition Lake Placid Blue Finish electric guitar, which he used in the video for Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, on display at the Hard Rock Cafe, London, before it goes up for auction, with an estimate of 600,000 – 800, 000 US dollars in the Julien’s Auctions Music Icons three-day auction event in New York, beginning on May 20. Picture date: Wednesday April 27, 2022.

An electric guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the music video for the band’s landmark hit track Smells Like Teen Spirit is to go under the hammer for the first time.

The 1969 Fender Mustang in Lake Placid blue finish is among a selection of items to be sold at a “music icons” event held at Julien’s Auction House between May 20 to 22 at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.