Who bought John Lennon's piano for $2 million?

L O N D O N, Oct. 18, 2000 -- George Michael forked out $2.1 million to buy the piano John Lennon used to compose “Imagine,” Michael's spokeswoman said today.

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George Michael Buys 'Imagine' Piano

L O N D O N, Oct. 18, 2000 -- George Michael forked out $2.1 million to buy the piano John Lennon used to compose “Imagine,” Michael’s spokeswoman said today. “He’s just so excited to have got it at the moment that we don’t know what will happen to it,” spokeswoman Josephine Green said. “He feels it’s a piece of history and he wants it to stay in the U.K.” The wood-finished upright was auctioned Tuesday, but Michael had not been identified as the winning telephone bidder. The piano, a Steinway Model Z upright, was built in Hamburg in 1970 and purchased by Lennon later that year.

Historic Piano

The piano was bought by a private British collector in 1992. It had been on loan to the Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool since February. Bidding was conducted live from Hard Rock Cafe branches in both London and New York, as well as via the telephone and Internet at fleetwoodowen.com’s, in a sale of Beatles memorabilia organized by Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac and auctioneer Ted Owen. But it was the piano that had aficionados drooling. Film footage from 1971 shows a relaxed Lennon at its keys composing “Imagine” at his home in southern England before he turns to his keyboard player to remark: “That’s the one I like best.” Yoko Ono looks on. The piano had been owned by a private collector and had been on show for most of the year at the Beatles Story Museum in their home town of Liverpool. The final price at Tuesday’s sale came within a whisker of the auctioneer’s predicted 1.5 million pounds Michael has yet to announce what he will do with his acquisition, but the museum has offered it a home and full insurance if the new owner will keep it on display there.

New Wave of Beatlemania

A Ferrari 330GT owned by Lennon and restored by the late Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s boyfriend, sold for $158,000. Other Items included a pair of Lennon’s wire-rimmed spectacles, which fetched $8,600 and a Hammond C3 organ from Lennon’s studio, which sold for $58,000; and a tin of Beatles talcum powder, which drew a top bid of $290. The sale caps a month of Beatlemania which saw the opening of a new Lennon museum in Japan and the release of the band’s first autobiography charting the Fab Four’s meteoric rise to fame and fortune. Two solo albums were released last week to mark what would have been Lennon’s 60th birthday, shortly after Paul McCartney put together a new Beatles dance record featuring out-takes from the band’s 1960s heyday.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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