Last updated: Wednesday, November 29, 2006

TOWNSHEND'S GIRL SELLS LAST GUITAR HE SMASHED

PETE TOWNSHEND's girlfriend RACHEL FULLER is auctioning off the last guitar the rocker smashed onstage to fund charities.


Pete Townshend of The Who performs live at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Atlantic City, New Jersey - 24.11.06

The classically-trained pianist is giving THE WHO fans the chance to own the splintered guitar her beau smashed during a concert in Yokohama, Japan in 2004 on her radio show IN THE ATTIC.

She says, "I'm selling $10 lottery tickets. It's absolutely insane but someone offered me a million dollars for it (guitar).

"It's just sitting in a glass case. The money will go to charities like the Teenage Cancer Trust, which Pete is very involved with, and hopefully to victims of Hurricane Katrina."

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Source: WENN

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