Ed O'Brien gives his Kid A Telecaster to a charity auction

Ed O'Brien has given a white Fender Telecaster, signed by all five members of Radiohead, to an eBay auction for the Billie Butterfly Fund. The fund was set up for the four-year-old niece of Luke Bainbridge, one of the founding editors of Observer Music Monthly, who has an inoperable brain tumour. The money is for treatment in the United States, which will cost more than £200,000. Bainbridge says O'Brien heard about the appeal and offered the guitar.

When SPIN reported the listing, bidding stood at £1,550, about $2,500, with nine days to go before it closes on 13 November.

The guitar comes with a handwritten note from O'Brien to whoever buys it. He bought it in the summer of 1998, just before the band went in to make the records that became Kid A and Amnesiac.

It was pretty much the only guitar I used at that time. It's also been gigged a lot, up until and including the In Rainbows tour.

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