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Who'd believe it?

May 10 2005 By The Evening Chronicle

A guitar used by rocker Pete Townsend in concerts on Tyneside has sold for £24,000.

The 1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe was used by The Who guitarist at gigs in November 1973.

The instrument was just one of a number of items with North East connections to go under the hammer at a Christie's auction, in London.

A poster advertising a return visit of Newcastle group the Animals to the Galaxy Club in Basingstoke in 1965 went for £264.

Guitars owned and signed by Mark Knopfler fetched £384 and £420.

And a blue cotton shirt worn by Sting on The Police's Synchronicity tour in 1980 sold for £180.

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