Another Big Sale
Infamous Christie’s auction house, for recently able to sell John Lennon’s guitar for more than 240 thousand euros, said The Guardian on Thursday, June 2. In the beginning auction’s organizers were showing some interest in selling it for 100–150 euros, but the interest for this lot just grew out of any expected proportions. Practically, it’s not about the price, but it’s about the one who was using it, so all these huge costs seem to be slightly off track. Why just selling it all, selling it all the time while thinking only about prices, lots and other ‘down to earth’ miserable things, when musician’s art matters the most? Neil Roberts, auction’s manager who is specializing on selling of items that deal with pop/rock culture said that on the day when they’ve put on sale Lennon’s guitar, his firm was literally attacked with phone calls, emails and visitors. This guitar turned to be a spectacle among thousands of fans. As historians believe, Lennon had purchased 1958 Hofner Senator in one of the Liverpool’s music stores and used it primarily at home. Auction’s lot also included George Harrison’s letter in which he is saying that Hofner Senator was one of Lennon’s first guitars. Possibly this fact was the major force that drew fans into buying it.