Signed acoustic guitar used on (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? – the bestselling album of the 90s – could fetch up to £60,000 at Sotheby’s
Incredibly, some critics were lukewarm about Oasis’s second album, with one calling it “laboured and lazy” and another dismissing it as a “marginally less hook-laden reprise” of their debut.
But (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? went on to become the bestselling British album of the 90s and a guitar Noel Gallagher used to write it will, Sotheby’s has announced, be a star lot of its April rock and pop sale.
Gallagher’s signed Epiphone EJ-200 acoustic guitar will feature alongside a handwritten lyric sheet for Don’t Look Back in Anger and a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar used by Gallagher for a decade.
Craig Inciardi, Sotheby’s New York-based pop culture specialist, said Gallagher used acoustic guitars to write a lot of the band’s songs and the jumbo-sized one up for sale was “typical of what he plays to this day”.
