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Noel Gallagher's Oasis guitar from iconic album heads to auction

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  • Noel Gallagher's signed Epiphone EJ-200 acoustic guitar from Oasis' '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' is being auctioned via Sotheby's
  • The auction includes additional items like a handwritten lyric sheet and another guitar, with the main guitar estimated at £45,000-£60,000
  • The guitar was given to a roadie and later sold to a fan who is now auctioning it, while the album remains one of Oasis' most successful works

The auction includes a handwritten lyric sheet for 'Don't Look Back In Anger' and a Rickenbacker 12-string model used by Gallagher for a decade, with the guitar estimated to fetch between £45,000 and £60,000 (€51,000 and €69,000). Online bidding for the auction opens tomorrow. Gallagher gave the guitar to a roadie, who later sold it to the person now putting it on sale.

The person now putting the guitar on sale is a huge Oasis fan who was in the social circles of people around the band at the time. ' sold 350,000 copies in its first week and became the best-selling British album of the 90s, with more than 22 million copies sold worldwide since its 1995 release.

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