The 50-year-old lock of Elvis’ hair that went up for auction in Chicago yesterday exceeded expectations, price-wise—it was originally expected to fetch between $8,000 and $12,000, but it wound up leaving the building for $15,000, plus $3,300 in fees! So wait, does this mean the economy is back? Awesome! [AP / Earlier] MORE »
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A “large quantity” of the late Elvis Presley’s hair—shown at left in all its tufted glory—is expected to fetch between $8,000 and $12,000 at an auction taking place this Sunday in Chicago. The hair supposedly came from Presley’s shaving of his head when he joined the Army in 1958—meaning that, yes, the locks up for bid are 50 years old. Mmm, crunchy! For those of you who want a lock of a famous musician’s hair but are on a bit of a budget—or are looking for tresses of a more recent vintage—$130 (and fleet fingers) can possibly net you among other things a lock of Pete Wentz’s hair, salvaged from Mark Hoppus shaving off Wentz’s “emo haircut” during Fall Out Boy’s show at Madison Square Garden last Sunday. [via Reuters / icecreamhdaches] MORE »
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Having Amy Winehouse At Your Wedding Could Be Way More Expensive Than The Cost Of An Open Bar
Do any of you out there watch Bridezillas? I think it’s a telling commentary on the current moment that so many of the crazyperson weddings featured within are pretty low-budget affairs—hell, there was even one woman on the show who catered her own reception as a way of cutting costs. But really, who has money to throw around anymore in an era where Vh1’s “Fabulous Life Of…” specials are more interesting for the aftermath of their feature-ees, many of whom are currently broke and/or in jail and/or definitely not as “fabulous” as they were back in the day? Which is why this just-released list of “the most expensive wedding bands” (topped, of course, by the Rolling Stones) seems so oddly timed. I know August is a tough time for the music-news feature well, but in the post-Madoff era is there anyone with $8.176 million to blow on just the band? At least with that sort of food budget, you can get, like, an ice sculpture of the married couple. Anyway, the list of the big-money artists—which somehow includes Jennifer Lopez?!—after the jump. MORE »
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Want to hear the early-1990s incarnation of Madonna whisper dirty sexy nothings to a paramour? Have a lot of money just hanging around, collecting interest? Well, if you’d like to part with at least $25,000 of your financial reserves, you can own a couple of microcassettes that are filled with hot messages from Madge to her ex-paramour Jim Albright. Or you could, y’know, save your money by just listening to “Justify My Love” until you’re blue in the face. [NYDN / Dailymotion] MORE »
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Is Riding A Led Zeppelin-Themed Roller Coaster Really Worth Four Bucks A Second?
You might not think so, and I definitely don’t think so, but South Carolina resident Cindy Ennis apparently has the money to show that she disagrees with us, spending $1,829 for four seats on the inaugural run of Led Zeppelin: The Ride, which will be one of the big attractions at the music-themed amusement park Hard Rock Park. (Yes, it’s still opening, stone-hewn Jimi Hendrix and all.) The ride will make its first run–set to the strains of “Whole Lotta Love,” and just under three minutes long–next Tuesday, and Cindy will be right up front! MORE »
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Billy Joel’s Shea Stadium Ticketing Snafu May Make Him The New Hannah Montana
Billy Joel’s July concert at Shea Stadium–the final musical event at the crumbling concrete behemoth–sold out in one hour on Saturday morning, although the ticketing system used to handle the show’s ticket sales was apparently experiencing massive gridlock. (Shea’s overlords eschewed Ticketmaster for in-house site 507tixx.com, which is named after the Mets’ ticketing hotline.) As you might expect, the “secondary market” for these tickets is thriving, despite the tech snafus and speedy sellout; at present, there are 441 listings for tickets on the semi-legitimate scalping site StubHub, with the highest single-seat price $99,215. That total is up from the 209 sets of tickets on sale Thursday, when Mets season-ticket holders were allowed to buy tickets early. MORE »
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What Would You Do With A Spare $14,654.72?
Hole up at a hotel for a month and pay the staff to disable your room’s Internet access? Give new meaning to the term “bulk candy”? Distribute gold dollars on street corners until you got mugged? The possibilities are endless, really! MORE »
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Would You Pay $4,000 For A Rolling Stones T-Shirt? (Pit Stains Thrown In For Free)
Hope y’all hung onto your Cinderella and Neneh Cherry T-shirts, because they’re about 20 years from being worth thousands of dollars, at least if an upcoming auction at Christie’s is a good barometer of the amounts people are willing to spend on someone else’s stinky, four decade old rock merch. MORE »
