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The Fame Bureau
Another rock ‘n roll auction recently sold music memorabilia from Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. This is a pretty common event these days, but the name behind the transaction is what caught my eye this time.
I hadn’t heard of The Fame Bureau before, but their website says…
Ted Owen, the Fame Bureau’s Managing Director [...]
Burnt Hendrix Auction
A guitar Jimi Hendrix set afire on stage and thought lost is being auctioned on ebay. “When Hendrix set this guitar alight it marked a watershed in live performance,” said Ted Owen, director of acquisitions at the auction house. Hendrix, who died in 1970, burnt two guitars on stage — he repeated the stunt at a festival later in 1967 — but the one to be auctioned is the only example that survives intact. Also on auction, Jim Morrison’s last notebook of poems. Too bad it wasn’t burnt on stage
