Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour
sells guitars for over $21 million in
auction to combat climate change
Posted By: Hazymac, 6/21/2019 7:34:55 PM
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour sold over 120 of his guitars for a charity that combats climate change. According to NBC News, the former frontman’s auction raked in $21.5 million, all of which will be donated to ClientEarth, a nonprofit environmental law organization that prides itself on using the law to "combat climate change” and “defend habitats and wildlife," according to its Facebook page. Gilmour tweeted about his decision to sell the guitars on Friday, writing, “The choice really is that simple, and I hope that the sale of these guitars will help ClientEarth in their cause to use the law to bring about real change.”
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To combat climate change?? He fell for Gore's BS guilt trip. Mankind has little to nothing to do with the climate. What a beastly waste. Whoever buys Gilmour's guitars won't ever play them as well as he did. The old record guitar price was $2M, paid by Kirk Hammett of Metallica, for Peter Green's (Fleetwood Mac leader, 1967-1970) 1959 Les Paul Standard with the upside down humbucker and reversed magnet.