More than 1,500 pieces of music history are up for auction at the Hard Rock Café in New York. The big-ticket item is a guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain during the band’s first tour – it’s expected to fetch up to US$400,000. Cobain inscribed his duct-taped 1973 Fender Mustang with the much-quoted phrase: “If it’s illegal to Rock and Roll, then throw my bottom in jail”. Ok, he didn’t say bottom, but you catch his drift… Other items for sale include a pair of John Lennon’s iconic ‘granny glasses’ and pieces owned by Prince and Amy Winehouse. You can check out the entire catalogue here. And something for royal fans… The late Queen Elizabeth’s only driving licence has been purchased for $12,017. The military provisional licence was given to the then-princess in 1945 when she worked as a mechanic in the final year of WWII. Of course, she never needed another…