{"id":6494,"date":"2023-09-07T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-personal-possessions-auction-breaks-records-with-millions-made-music-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:38:07","slug":"freddie-mercury-personal-possessions-auction-breaks-records-with-millions-made-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-personal-possessions-auction-breaks-records-with-millions-made-music-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury personal possessions auction breaks records with millions made | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Freddie\u2019s Baby Grand Yamaha Piano, on which he composed Bohemian Rhapsody sold for \u00a31.7 million. This was a new record for a composer\u2019s piano.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his handwritten Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics \u2013 a piece of paper with \u201cMongolian Rhapsody\u201d crossed out \u2013 were sold for a whopping \u00a31.379 million.<\/p>\n<p>Another big seller was the Queen star\u2019s costume crown and cloak going for \u00a3635,000, which was over 10 times the original estimate of \u00a360,000-80,000.<\/p>\n<p>Another surprise highlight was a silver snake bangle worn in the Bohemian Rhapsody music video by Freddie. Originally estimated at \u00a37000-9000, this sold for \u00a3698,500, a record for a piece of jewellery belonging to a rockstar, and almost 100 times its estimate.<\/p>\n<p>After a few hours of bidding, the evening auction concluded with Freddie\u2019s 1941 Wurlitzer jukebox, which he kept in his kitchen, selling for \u00a3406,400 up from its estimate of \u00a315,000-25,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Other Freddie Mercury auctions coming up at Sotheby&#8217;s are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Stage\u201d Live Auction, 7 September, 10 AM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Home\u201d Live Auction, 8 September, Session 1: 10 AM, Session 2: 2 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Love with Japan\u201d Online Auction, 11 August \u2013 11 September, 10 AM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrazy Little Things\u201d Part One Online Auction, 11 August \u2013 12 September, 10 AM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrazy Little Things\u201d Part Two Online Auction, 11 August \u2013 13 September, 10 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Freddie\u2019s Baby Grand Yamaha Piano, on which he composed Bohemian Rhapsody sold for \u00a31.7 million. This was a new record for a composer\u2019s piano. Meanwhile, his handwritten Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics \u2013 a piece of paper with \u201cMongolian Rhapsody\u201d crossed out \u2013 were sold for a whopping \u00a31.379 million. Another big seller was the Queen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}