Source: Good News Network
11 years ago on this day, an old Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a garage sale sold for £4,000 at auction because the ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney, George Harrison, as well as the members of the Rolling Stones! The seller even haggled down the cost from £3 before walking away with the seminal disk.
Experts think the album was signed as part of a celebration to welcome Ronnie Wood, who replaced Mick Taylor in the Stones during 1976, according to the BBC. (2008)MORE Good News on this Date:
- The Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state (1809)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City (1872)
- Lt. Edward O’Hare became America’s first World War II flying ace (1942)
- One of the greatest Canadian hockey players, Phil Esposito, was born (1942)
- 60 years ago today, Jimi Hendrix made his stage debut at 16-years-old when he played a show at the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue in Seattle (1959)
- John Glenn aboard Friendship 7 became the first American to orbit the…
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