Paul McCartney and Tracey Emin create one-off ‘nude’ guitar for charity

Sir Paul McCartney and artist Tracey Emin have come together to create a unique guitar to help celebrity chef Mark Hix raise money for Cancer Research UK. The acoustic guitar features a drawing by Emin of a nude woman on the back of the instrument and is signed by both Emin and McCartney. The guitar is estimated to be worth thousands of pounds and will be a prize a raffle Hix is putting on during a big charity event in Dorset.

He is aiming to draw thousands of amateur guitarists to play together on a Dorset beach to set a new record as Britain’s biggest band. Named ‘Guitars On The Beach’, the massive event runs alongside his food festival Food Rocks in the seaside town of Lyme Regis over the weekend of September 3-4.

A London art collector has estimated that it could raise as much as £50,000 at auction – but instead the Guitars On The Beach team is raffling it for just £1 a ticket, so that everybody has a fair chance of winning.

Hix commented: “Tracey and Paul have really turned up trumps. She has created a stunning Tracey Emin original of a topless woman sunbathing on a beach and both she and Paul have signed it, making the guitar a much-prized work of art of which there is only one in the world.

“It’s a unique collaboration by one of Britain’s top artists with the world’s biggest star in music. With a Beatle and Tracey coming together, we’ve dubbed it the ‘Hey Nude’ guitar.”

In 2014, the free-entry event attracted 3,000 amateur guitarists from all over the UK and the ensemble claimed the record as Britain’s biggest band. Hix is hoping that this year the band on the sand will beat its own record as thousands of strummers come together to simultaneously play Buddy Holly’s Rave On and That’ll Be The Day in a nod of tribute to the original guitar star who would have been 80 in September.

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