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Phoebe Bridgers’ Guitar Becomes Highest-Selling Web Item in GLAAD History

Phoebe Bridgers, indie darling of the pandemic, is now a card-carrying rock god. The 26-year-old’s black Danelectro Dano ’56 — the guitar she smashed on a fake amp at the end of her debut Saturday Night Live performance — sold for a whopping $101,500 at a GLAAD Media Awards auction ended bidding on Sunday, April 11. It’s the first time an item has ever fetched more than $100k at one of GLAAD’s online auctions, a representative tells SPIN, making it one of the most prized items the media monitoring nonprofit has put on the block in its three-decade history. Selling a guitar north of six figures puts Bridgers in hallowed territory. At a 2018 Julien’s auction featuring classic rock memorabilia, a Gretsch played and signed by Bono fetched $64,000. A Bob Dylan guitar went fo...