LONDON, July 25 (UPI) -- The guitar played by Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson -- the father of rock 'n' roll -- is for sale on the Moments In Time Web site for $6.4 million.
Johnson, who inspired future guitar players including Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, was said to have sold his soul to the devil for his musical skills, the Mirror said.
He used the Gibson L1 acoustic guitar in his only two recording sessions n 1936 and 1937, the Mirror reported. Gibson L1s were handmade from 1926 to 1930. Experts who have examined a photograph of Johnson with the guitar and the actual instrument say they are the same.
The current owner did not know it had been Johnson's until a boxed set of the musician's work was re-released in 1990 with a photograph of him playing the battered guitar.
Little is known about Johnson except that he died in 1938 at age 27.
Clapton, who released an album called "Me and Mr Johnson" in 2004, said he was "the most important blues musician who ever lived."
