doctor_slump 2008-7-11 07:00 AM
Sgt Pepper drum skin makes £540,000
The iconic bass drum skin used on the front cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold for £541,250 at auction.
Auction house Christie's had estimated that the hand-painted skin would sell for around £150,000, but it sold for almost four times that.
John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for Give Peace A Chance also surpassed their top estimate of £300,000.
The hammer went down at £421,250.
The words were intended as a lyric sheet for Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, but Lennon gave them to fan Gail Renard and asked her to rewrite them in a larger format so everyone could join in.
A pair of Lennon's tinted prescription sunglasses, which he wore for the cover of the Apple Records single Mind Games, sold for £39,650.
The Rock and Pop Memorabilia sale at the London auction house raised more than £1.5 million.
A rare recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music Festival, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, in July 1968 sold for £48,050.
A 1966 Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert between 1967 and 1969 sold for £25,000 and a pair his stripy flared trousers made £20,000. A 1967 Gibson guitar which had been owned by The Who's Pete Townshend sold for £32,450.
The sale included memorabilia from acts from Ella Fitzgerald to Madonna. Sale prices include buyer's premium.
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manager 2008-7-11 08:06 AM
這裡真是一個學習英文的好地方....{::182