I just recently got interested in auctions, after Eric Clapton auctioned off his most famous guitars Brownie and Blackie. Also, George Harrison’s rosewood Fender Telecaster, and then John Lennon’s piano that he composed the song “Imagine” on. So I started browsing through sites like Christie’s, and found some amazing things.

Keith Moon’s Premier five-piece drum kit from 1968 sold for $215,000 in London’s pop memorabilia auction in September 2004, which set another world record for the highest price paid for a set of drums at an auction.

Christie’s set a new world auction record for Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster named Brownie, which is the guitar he used on his “Layla” album. Clapton’s Blackie Fender Stratocaster (circa ‘56-’57) sold for $959,500 in June of 2004 after his Crossroads Guitar Festival. It was a world auction record for any guitar.

Then there’s the story about George Harrison’s Solid Rosewood Telecaster that he played on Let It Be and the Beatles rooftop concert. It was shipped to the Beatles Abbey Road studios in London from Fender Guitar headquarters in the U.S. as a special gift. That was the introduction to a very limited production run of only 500 all rosewood solid body Telecasters that Fender produced that year in 1967. Harrison’s Telecaster sold in auction just a few years ago for just under $450,000.

The piano that John Lennon composed the song “Imagine” on has recently ended it’s “tour for peace” and is currently on display at the Goss Gallery in Dallas, Texas. The famous piano was purchased by George Michael at auction in October 2000 for a reported amount of $2.1 million, and is estimated to be worth somewhere between $8 to $12 million.

Related Links:
www.lennonpiano.com/
www.gossgallery.com/
www.christies.com/

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