Epiphone Supernova guitar – £1,040: A collectors’ item in more than one way, this “Man City Blue” guitar was Noel Gallagher’s custom-designed signature model, manufactured by the guitar company from 1997 to 2005. This particular one, featuring a handwritten message to manager Alan McGee’s dad John, is being sold for £1,040 from Britpopstore.co.uk.‘Supersonic’ silver disc – £600-£800: Presented to Creation Records’ McGee for selling more than 200,000 copies of Oasis’ debut single ‘Supersonic’ in 1994, at a later Manchester auction in 2011 you could grab a gin and tonic, nab this disc and bask in the glory of where the story all began.‘The Masterplan’ blackboard – £1,400: While putting a gigantic blackboard in your living room might not go down too well with your flatmates, you can’t argue that owning an integral prop from an album sleeve is pretty cool. One punter clearly thought so when they shelled out £1,400 this February at a Warrington auction. Photo: Omega Auctions /Press Added: 2 Sep 2015‘Be Here Now’ platinum disc – £800-£1200: There’s something perversely brilliant about Oasis’ legendarily iffy third album ‘Be Here Now’ fetching an asking price of around a grand (as it did at a July 2011 auction in Manchester), but hey – the platinum disc did at least belong to Bonehead.
Kate Bush is to make her second tribute to Emily Brontë, providing words for a permanent art installation on the wiley, windy moors that inspired Wuthering Heights. Bush will join the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the Scottish […]
To own a piece of our musical and cultural history and actually hold the book that Lennon held is for many collectors the Holy Grail and the missing piece to their collection. Here at eil.com […]
Our friends at the VinylPress.com recently featured EIL as part of their blog….. I recently got the chance to talk with Robert Croydon, one of the founders of EIL-Esprit, a well known UK-based purveyor of […]
Be the first to comment