The first guitar torched on stage by Jimi Hendrix has been sold for £280,000 a London auction of rock memorabilia.

The Fender Stratocaster, burnt at the end of a show in north London in 1967, was bought by collector Daniel Boucher from Boston, Massachusetts.

“It was something I wanted to have,” he told the BBC after the sale. “I decided I would go the distance to get it.”

The instrument was only recovered from a garage last year and still bears the scorch marks of Hendrix’s performance.

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