Noel Gallagher’s guitar damaged on night Oasis split goes up for auction

Auctioneer says destruction of red Gibson guitar at 2009 Paris festival was cult moment' in music history

A guitar belonging to Noel Gallagher, which was damaged backstage at an Oasis concert on the night they broke up, is due to be sold at auction next month.

Although the guitar was later repaired, the destruction of the red Gibson ES-355 backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris in 2009 was a cult moment" in music history, according to Jonathan Berg, a co-founder of the Artpeges gallery, which is holding the auction.