Bee Gees guitar to go under the auction hammer

Wed, 05 Sep 2018

Luke Hobbs, of auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate, with the Gibson J45 (left) and Gibson doubleneck guitars (Clare Hobbs Photography/PA)

A guitar which helped propel the Bee Gees to stardom will go to auction next week.

The Gibson J45 acoustic guitar that Bee Gee Maurice Gibb used to compose the band's 1975 disco hit - Jive Talkin' - is expected to fetch more than £10,000.

Famously, Maurice, who died in 2003 aged 53, composed the track on the guitar after driving across a bridge in Florida and hearing the rhythm made by the car’s tyres on the road surface.

The guitar, signed by all three Gibb brothers, was given away as a prize on Radio 1 in 1987.

The Gibson J45 could fetch more than £10,000 at auction in Wiltshire.

A custom-made 1968 Gibson EBS-1250 double-neck, which also belonged to Maurice Gibb, will also go under the hammer.