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Posted: **Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:05 am**

Anyone check out the new Fleetwood Owen website yet?

The site says:

The celebration begins
September 15th, 2000
Fleetwood Owen will hold a live Beatles auction at the London Hard Rock Cafe on Tuesday, October 17, in which John Lennon's walnut "Imagine" Steinway Z upright piano and 1965 Ferrari 330GT will be up for grabs, among other Beatles items.

Posted: **Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:16 am**

Thanks Terry. Oh Boy! This is going to fetch some serious cash!

Posted: **Fri Sep 15, 2000 8:57 am**

You betcha, Peter! Watch all the Holy Grails of the world start going seriously ballistic what with Fleetwood Owen taking on the high-end rock memorabilia market now -- and online, no less. Paul Allen has already made it extremely fashionable for multi-billionaires to collect this sort of thing. And this is all still in its infancy, too. (I ain't complaining!)

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2000 5:33 pm**

Fleetwood Owen just sold John Lennon's "Imagine" Steinway Z Upright piano (Sale 2002, Lot 69) today for £1.45 million, which is approximately $2.1 million at today's foreign exchange rate.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2000 6:01 pm**

Anyone know who bought it ?

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2000 6:24 am**

Oops - should have read the links first, George Michael. Lucky fella.

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2000 8:36 am**

Here's a little something to consider.

Quote:ItemEstimate £Estimate U.S. $ John Lennon's Steinway upright piano£300-400,000$474,000-632,000 *Estimated prices as listed in the auction catalog. U.S. $ based on March 17, 1997 exchange rate of 1£=$1.58

Bonham's 1997 Beatles Auction (Tokyo & London Saturday 22 March, 1997) Quote:TOKYO (AP) -- . . . But the Steinway piano that Lennon used to compose the song, "Imagine," went unsold after the initial price tag of $308,000 was met with silence.

Beatles memorabilia goes on the block in Tokyo (Saturday, March 22, 1997)
Summary

March 22, 1997
Lennon's Steinway upright meets with silence; can't even draw a lousy $308,000 bid.
October 17, 2000
Lennon's Steinway upright sells as a bona fide $2.1 million icon.

(Did someone say "ballistic"??)

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2000 9:22 am**

No, the word was "STUPIDITY"! 6.8times more in just 3 years? Come on...

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2000 10:42 am**

Quote:30 . . . there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30 KJV

Posted: **Wed Oct 18, 2000 6:42 pm**

It is interesting to consider what the 1958 325 Capri would fetch if the auctioneers can squeeze out $2.1 million US for this piano.

Posted: **Thu Oct 19, 2000 8:45 am**

Yes the most valuable guitar on the planet. Perhaps if you all pitch in together you might be able to buy a tuner.