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Up for auction: Mark Chapman's copy of Double Fantasy signed by Lennon
Posted by Mondo on 24 November 2010 - 9:14pm.
Start your bids at £535,000 http://bit.ly/ewT8ZP. Any thoughts?
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Hasn't someone
put this up for auction before and the police claimed it was stolen from their possession?
psycopathic assassin
I would buy it to ram down the murderer's throat
Ugh
This item should be in a museum or something, not in some Beatle fan's personal collection. Killer might not have quite gotten Lennon's last autograph: http://www.examiner.com/john-lennon-in-national/interview-dave-sholin-re...
Only that the seller
has blood on his hands if he profits from this.
And
the buyer
Seems a lot of money.
Double Fantasy's very patchy.
What you mean is
every second track is shite ;-)
Perhaps Yoko should buy it
Get it out of the public domain
Considering...
...Yoko used the bloodstained spectacles Lennon was wearing when he was murdered as part of the artwork on the front cover of her 1981 solo album Season Of Glass, I wouldn't bank on her hiding the Chapman LP out of sight.
She could well make an "art project" out of it.
All in the best possible taste, of course.
Why?
For £535,000 you could buy all the great rock 'n' roll that influenced John from the 50s, and all the great music made up until the 'Plastic Ono Band' LP in December '70, and still have £525,000 to spend on something else like a pub or a local football team or something.
And you wouldn't have an over-produced, thin-as-paper see-through vinyl album from the dire 1980s on a rubbish record label.
Erm...
Well it's an investment isn't it? Collectors buy such things in the hope that they'll grow in value. Nobody's suggesting that someone would spend half a million quid on Double Fantasy because of it's musical merits.