Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles

Artfact Live! is admiring to advertise a appropriate two-day arrangement event, “Rock the Auction”, offered by Alexander Autographs on September 30th and October 1st. “Rock the Auction” is accessible for online behest alone through Artfact Live! and is presented in affiliation with Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT. This amazing arrangement offers over 700 lots from Rock and Roll legends such as Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Don Henley, Prince and abounding others. Original items offered in the auction cover documents, agreeable instruments, claimed clothing, promotional materials, albums and more. Benefiting VH1’s Save the Music Foundation, this is an arrangement for any bedrock and cycle enthusiast or pop ability collector. Bidding starts as low as $25, while a covering anorak beat by Michael Jackson during “Dirty Diana” rehearsals, accepted to back amid $150,000 and $200,000 opens for behest at $75,000.

DAY 1:
Day one begins with a cogent certificate in the history of bedrock and roll. Lot 1 is the active certificate annal of acknowledged affidavit pertaining to "We Are the World." Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, and preformed by abundant acclaimed agreeable artists, gain from the individual went to allay ache in Africa and the United States. The affidavit cover an acceding amid Jackson and Ritchie to allotment the rights to the song and some of the affairs abiding with added artists to participate in the recording. Bidding opens at $10,000. (Further affidavit apropos the “We are the World” activity can be acquired on day two in lot 417, which contains the affidavit in which Michael Jackson active over his rights to the individual in 1985, altruistic all added gain to efforts to allay ache in Africa and the United States. Bidding on this account begins at $7,500.)

The top lot of day one is lot 249, a custom-built walking pikestaff acceptance to Johnny Cash. As Cash’s bloom began to abatement in the 1990’s he came to crave the use of a cane. This is an intricately carved board walking pikestaff with an owl perched at the top and a rattlesnake captivated about the base. First awash in 2004 at Sotheby’s Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash acreage sale, the pikestaff is now accessible starting at $10,000.

Lot 175 is a Beatles First State Sealed Mono "Livingston" Butcher Cover. Records with this awning architecture are awfully attenuate as they were recalled aboriginal afterwards the album’s absolution to critics; they were advised too clear and abhorrent for the public. This accurate album has an even added absorbing full-blooded as it originally belonged to Alan Livingston, the admiral of Capitol Records in 1966. Included in the lot is a active Livingston letter and a archetype of the aboriginal Capitol Records anamnesis letter to reviewers. Bidding begins at $10,000.

Lot 176 is an unreleased audio chat amid John Lennon and Yoko Ono. On this tape, fabricated in 1969, John and Yoko allocution candidly for blaster account about adulation and sex. Bidding opens at $10,000.

DAY2:
Perhaps the a lot of absorbing and arguable lot of the sale, Lot 416 contains a area of Michael Jackson Handwritten Lyrics, 1986. These lyrics, conceivably a asperous abstract of what became the song “Cheater” appear in 2004, acrylic a account of a depressed alone and accommodate what some accede affirmation of baleful tendencies in the afflicted pop star.

The top lot of day two is lot 415, a covering anorak beat by Michael Jackson during rehearsals for his "Dirty Diana" video. Made for Jackson by the Western Costume Co., the atramentous covering anorak is adorned with abundant buckles straps and zippers. The lot includes two belletrist of authentication, from Western Costume Co. and from Jackson’s claimed designers. Bidding begins at $75,000.

Lot 523 is a Martin D-35 Guitar acclimated in concert by Elvis Presley. Presley gave the guitar to a fan at the Bay Front Center Arena in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the black of February 14, 1977 afterwards he bankrupt a cord and the guitar’s strap. Since again the instrument’s ancestry has been able-bodied accurate and it is now accessible alpha at $75,000.

Lot 401 is Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster Guitar. Included with the guitar are a amount of abstruse photos, a monogrammed face anhydrate from the Navarro Hotel, an affirmation and action address from Larry Lee, the acquaintance and casting acquaintance of Hendrix who accustomed the guitar as a allowance at the Navarro Hotel in 1969. Bidding opens at $42,500.

Lot 654 is Don Henley's 1950 Martin D-28 Guitar. Used by Henley in his aboriginal years in the music business through the accumulation of the Eagles and the recording of the album “Hotel California”. One of alone 550 Martin D-28's fabricated in 1950, the guitar is offered in its aboriginal case with belletrist of actuality and certification, behest begins at $25,000.

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