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 have 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 informed the BBC he was “elated” together with his buy.
He mentioned: “John Lennon and I have been superb pals whereas we have been residing in New York within the Seventies.
“I knew I had to purchase these glasses no matter. I’d 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 exterior his dwelling 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 pals with a lot of musicians, and he was invited to the Beatles’ recording studios as a birthday deal with.
In keeping with 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. In actual fact, he can have them. Glad birthday!’”
He added: “They aren’t John Lennon’s prescription glasses, however he gave them to me and wished me pleased birthday, so that’s ok 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 have 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.
