24 de Junho de 1999.

The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for $497,500. In 1999 Clapton auctioned off some of his guitar collection to raise money for his Crossroads centre he founded in Antigua in 1997. The Crossroads centre is a treatment base for addicitive disorders like drugs and alcohol. The total revenue raised by the auction at Christie's was US$7,438,624.