The spoon-bending magician and mystic Uri Geller has revealed he’s the customer behind a pair of John Lennon’s spherical glasses at public sale, which offered for £40,000 on Wednesday.
The blue-tinted spectacles had been offered in an public sale on Wednesday at Farleigh golf membership in Surrey. They got by the previous Beatle to a person from Surrey as a birthday current greater than 55 years in the past.
Catherine Southon Auctioneers mentioned the glasses had been offered to an nameless abroad purchaser, who revealed himself as Geller on Thursday. He instructed the BBC he was “elated” along with his buy.
He mentioned: “John Lennon and I had been excellent mates whereas we had been dwelling in New York within the Nineteen Seventies.
“I knew I had to purchase these glasses no matter. I might have gone as much as £500,000. Glasses are a passage into our soul, into our psyche.”
Geller mentioned he had “an incredible connection” with Lennon, who died after being shot outdoors his residence in New York in December 1980.
The showman, now in his 70s, added: “John modified my life as that’s the place I realized about spirituality. He believed in UFOs and I believed in UFOs and he was fascinated by my alien assortment. He gave me an alien egg.”
The glasses shall be displayed prominently within the John Lennon part of his museum in Tel Aviv alongside the alien egg.
Catherine Southon mentioned the singer gifted them to their vendor – recognized solely as Michael – at Abbey Highway Studios in 1968. Michael mentioned his then girlfriend, Penny, was mates with plenty of musicians, and he was invited to the Beatles’ recording studios as a birthday deal with.
In response to the public sale home conducting the sale, Michael mentioned: “I picked up a pair of glasses from a piano. Penny mentioned: ‘Don’t contact.’
“John Lennon circled and mentioned, ‘He’s all proper. The truth is, he can have them. Comfortable birthday!’”
He added: “They don’t seem to be John Lennon’s prescription glasses, however he gave them to me and wished me completely satisfied birthday, so that’s adequate for me.”
Michael additionally took 33 black and white pictures of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and George Martin in 1968 and 1969 when he visited Abbey Highway, which offered for £2,600.
Different pictures had been taken on the identical day because the well-known photoshoot for the Abbey Highway album, which depicted the Beatles strolling throughout a close-by zebra crossing.
