The growing popularity of the guitar made it the focus of Gibson ... the brand’s impressive top-of-the-line acoustic archtop that was the biggest and flashiest of its kind at launch.

The only rules: The guitar had to be an 18-inch archtop (hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitars that are favored by many jazz guitarists); and it had to be the exact shade of blue as D’Aquisto ...

The Eric Clapton and Roger Waters collaborator paid just £47 to buy the discarded Gibson from Tom Jones’ guitarist ...