Erotic Madonna tapes, Hendrix contract for sale
Other artists and prominent figures featured among the more than 450 items offered in the rock ‘n’ roll and pop art auction on www.gottahaverockandroll.com include John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Eminem. The auction will run until August 5.
Hendrix’s earliest known contract for $1 dated October 15, 1965, could fetch up to $250,000 (€176,000), auctioneers said. It was signed by Hendrix andmusic producers PPX Enterprises for Hendrix to play and sing exclusively for three years. The contract – on which Hendrix’s first name is spelt “Jimmy” – granted him 1% of the retail sales from his recordings.
Two cassette tapes holding 17 minutes of messages that Madonna left in 1992 and 1993 on the answering machine of James Albright, the bodyguard who became her lover, are expected to fetch up to $40,000.
An intimate home video sent to Albright featuring Madonna in a hotel room with castmates shot during the making of the 1993 film Dangerous Game has anestimated draw of $12,000 to $14,000. Also up for sale are copies of love letters faxed to Albright by Madonna between 1992 and 1994 using the code name “Lola Montez”.
Neither the audio tapes nor the home video are being sold with copyright so the owner will not be able to sell the tapes to a public forum.
Another top lot is a life-size prop of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 terminator used in variousaction sequences in the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, which has an estimated selling price of $150,000 to $200,000.
Also on sale are Dylan’s original 1962 working lyrics for his song A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, jackets worn by Lennon and US rapper Eminem’s outfit that parodied Michael Jackson in his Just Lose It video.
Some of the items can be viewed in person at the Gotta Have It store in New York.
