Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Eric Clapton's ballad 'Wonderful Tonight' is one of the great love songs of our time. It was written on a modified 1974 Martin 000-28 acoustic which, since the late 90s, has been in the hands of a private collector. Now, as the guitar comes up for sale once again at Bonhams auction house in London on 12 June, we took the chance to take a quick tour round the unique features of this historic guitar, from its unique bridge embellished with snowflake inlays to its unique marks of use in Clapton's hands.
Eric Clapton's ballad 'Wonderful Tonight' is one of the great love songs of our time. It was written on a modified 1974 Martin 000-28 acoustic which, since the late 90s, has been in the hands of a private collector. Now, as the guitar comes up for sale once again at Bonhams auction house in London on 12 June, we took the chance to take a quick tour round the unique features of this historic guitar, from its unique bridge embellished with snowflake inlays to its unique marks of use in Clapton's hands.
