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By David Foxley 12/12/07 9:37pm

I Want to Hold Your Hair! John Lennon’s Locks Get $48,000 at Auction

Paying $100 million for Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull seemed, to us, outrageous until this afternoon. That’s because someone just bought a lock of John Lennon’s hair—of all things—for $48,000 from the Beatles’ onetime hairdresser, Betty Glasgow. The anonymous, winning bid came into London’s Gorringes auction house over the phone. Preliminary Read More

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