Lewis Hamilton has revealed that David Bowie sent him, anonymously, a gift of two electric guitars, and that he didn’t know that the rockstar had sent him the gifts until well after receiving them.
Speaking in a video shared to Instagram, the F1 driver explained that “A some years ago, I got home to this beautiful gift of these two guitars, and I had no idea where they were from, who they came from and why they were in my apartment.
“It wasn’t until about a year later that David Bowie had sent me these guitars.” (Guitar .com)
Formula 1 race car driver Lewis Hamilton has ponied up over £60.000 to buy the custom gold-leaf Fender Stratocaster guitar that Prince has been playing on tour. Proceeds will go to children’s and community-based organizations.
Hamilton and his girlfriend, actress and Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, had joined Prince onstage at a concert in Abu Dhabi following the 2010 Grand Prix.
Prince had ordered the guitar from Fender’s Custom Shop in Corona to be a unique component of his “Welcome 2 America Live” tour when it began late last year in New York. The guitar is gold-plated from head to toe, although it is not solid gold, as has sometimes been reported.
