De Burgh guts competition to buy Alien original

HE used to sing songs about spacemen who came travelling, but now he’s gone the whole extra-terrestrial hog and paid a small fortune for his own alien.

De Burgh guts competition to buy Alien original
Wed, 14 Jul, 2004 - 01:00
Jim Caldwell

Chris de Burgh has paid €45,037 at an auction for the original Alien creature from the 1979 sci-fi film.

The hideous creature burst violently from John Hurt’s chest in Ridley Scott’s film.

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