Hendrix guitar a "flaming bargain"

A collector wHO paid �280,000 at auction for the number one guitar congeal alight on
stage by rock legend Jimi Hendrix is preparing to take his new purchase menage
to America.

A enthralled Daniel Boucher, 51, Boylston, Massachusetts, aforesaid he idea he
would have to dig deeper in his pocket for the piece of musical history at a
sale of rock 'n' roll memorabilia in east London last dark.

Hendrix torched the 1965 Fender Stratocaster at the end of his demo at the
Astoria in Finsbury Park, north London, in March 1967.

But roadies put out the flames while Hendrix was being treated for minor burns
and his weigh officer, Tony Garland, stored it in his parents' garage in
Hove, East Sussex.

Hendrix later became famous for burning his guitars on stage just this
musical instrument remained undiscovered until final year when it was unearthed by
Garland's nephew.

Another bidder spent �240,000 on the offset management squeeze between The
Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein at the the Fame Bureau's It's More
Than Rock And Roll auction bridge at the Idea Generation Gallery.

The document, billed as the most important music take of all time,
belonged to "fifth Beatle" Epstein, the man of affairs who helped launch the
band later seeing them play at Liverpool's now famous Cavern Club.

He became their manager in 1961 only the constrict was non signed by "John
Winston Lennon", "George Harrison", "James Paul McCartney" and "Richard
Starkey" (Ringo Starr) until January 24, 1962.

Epstein only inked his nominate on the document on October 1, 1962 after getting
the Fab Four a deal with EMI for the release of the exclusive Love Me Do.

He said he did not sign earlier because he wanted the band to be able to walk
away if he could not deliver on his promise to get them a track record deal and a
number one.

The valuable piece of music memorabilia as well features the names of Harold
Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney, giving consent on behalf of their
sons as they were under 21.

Jim Morrison's last notebook of lyrics and poetry penned in Paris in 1971 just
months before he died sold for �58,000.

Another collector snapped up the lyrics for Sexy Sadie, a song which features
on The Beatles' White Album.

The lyrics were carved into a wooden plaque by John Lennon and represent an
attack on the Maharishi, the Indian guru a lot relied upon by the band.

Lennon changed the name of the call from Maharishi to Sexy Sadie in order to
save young man Beatle George Harrison from embarrassment as he still supported
the man.

The hand-carved cut of woodwind sold for �32,000 - easily below its estimated
leontyne Price of �45,000.

Mr Boucher, world Health Organization works in the music industry, said: "I thought I'd take to pay
a little bit more for the guitar, really. I am going to play it, I hope
some of it rubs off on me."

He declined to divulge what other pieces formed his collection just said he
enjoyed purchasing pieces of musical history.

"It changed music, he raised the bar so high you couldn't catch over it.
Obviously it is an investment, it couldn't not be an investment for that
quantity of money, but I bought it because I like it."

Mr Boucher who plays the guitar himself aforesaid that he would have the catch the
instrument converted for right script playing - Hendrix was left-handed.

Managing director of the Fame Bureau, Ted Owen said that despite inflated
estimates of the reported modesty price, the Hendrix guitar sold for well
over its reserve.

"The auction bridge has the largest array of star lots that we've seen for 15 years.
It was pretty overwhelming."

He said that he was pleased with the functioning of the items sold but
admitted that the Beatles shrink had sold for less than the reserve price.

He aforesaid that the bidders at such an auction included "people world Health Organization are 40-50
plus wHO have nimiety cash, collectors and investors. In the past couple of
years we've seen a number of city funds simply investing in memorabilia. With
the starring items there's always mortal who's passing to put their hand in
their pocket for it. The credit craunch doesn't touch them."

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Bernie Brillstein, the brash and gregarious old school Hollywood fixture who worked his way up from the WMA mailroom in 1956 to become one of the most powerful and respected brokers of talent in the entertainment business, has died. He was 77.

Brillstein died Thursday night at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles of what was described as chronic hindering pulmonary disease.

A showbiz hyphen before the term was even coined, Brillstein served as a talent agent, manager, producer and studio apartment head during a career that spanned more than a half-century. Along the way, he guided the careers of many of the top comedians and comedy writers the industry has produced, dating to the launch of "Saturday Night Live" in the mid-1970s. They included original "SNL" players John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd as well as creator/executive manufacturer Lorne Michaels.

"I spoke to Bernie well-nigh days over the past times 36 years," a melancholy Michaels aforementioned Friday. "For my contemporaries, he was a aim link to show clientele in the 1950s and '60s in New York. But beyond that, he was merely the c. H. Best human organism. He loved talent and he loved show business, yet what was most remarkable was the mode Bernie someways kept his balance in a earth where the great unwashed do barely awful things to each other. He never gave up his heart. He was one of the most comely and generous people I've ever known."

Brillstein presided over three management and production companies during his career as a rep and packager of countless major movie and TV deals. He founded the Brillstein Co. in 1969, which morphed into Brillstein-Grey Entertainment with spouse Brad Grey in 1991 and finally Brillstein Entertainment Partners final year.

Grey, wHO bought out Brillstein's involvement in Brillstein-Grey before moving to Paramount Pictures to serve as the studio's chairman in 2005, said Friday: "I will lose Bernie every day. Speaking to him and sharing with him was such a rudimentary and meaningful part of my casual life that it's a huge loss for me both personally and professionally. With Bernie, it was impossible to separate those two."

Calling Brillstein "a man who lived and voiceless our business sector," Grey added that "in this day and age, we canful all function a profound dose of the kind of values Bernie carried with him every day. The rudiments and basic principle and joyfulness of the entertainment business to him were e'er contagious."

Energetic, scheming and blessed with a keen comedic eye, Brillstein also long steered the fortunes of such industry players as Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Muppets creator Jim Henson, Bill Maher, Dennis Miller, David Spade, Gary Sinise, Ed O'Neill, Courteney Cox, Natalie Portman, John Stamos, Andy Garcia, Jimmy Smits, Martin Short, Rob Lowe, Dana Carvey, John Larroquette, Bob Odenkirk and writer Alan Zweibel.

Wearing his producer hat, Brillstein had a hand in steering to the heavy screen "Ghostbusters," "Dragnet," "Happy Gilmore," "Spies Like Us," "The Blues Brothers" and "The Cable Guy," patch in TV he eXEC produced shows ranging from the NBC comedies "Buffalo Bill," "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" and "ALF" to Showtime's "It's Garry Shandling's Show." He's likewise credited with having helped bring both "SNL" and HBO's "The Sopranos" to TV, the latter in partnership with Grey.

Indeed, Brillstein was ane of the first of the Hollywood power players to successfully package his client talent in projects he produced. But beyond his legendary instincts and sharp negotiating skills, Brillstein was as adept at playing the father figure and making the gift under his wing feel special.

"You're a wife. You really are," Brillstein told CNN in 1999. "You take aid of everything and have them ready for the day."

Brillstein's saucy and open 1999 memoir of his years in show business, "Where Did I Go Right? You're No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead," logged 10 weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.

Brillstein is survived by his wife of 10 years, Carrie; sons Michael Brillstein, David Koskoff and Nick Koskoff; daughters Kate and Leigh Brillstein; son-in-law Abe Hoch; and a grandson, Alden.

A memorial volition be held at 6 p.m. Monday at UCLA's Royce Hall, with a reception immediately following.

In lieu of flowers, the crime syndicate requests donations be directed to Barlow Respiratory Research Center, 2000 Stadium Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90026.


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LONDON (Billboard) - U.K. indie-rock duo the Ting Tings topped the U.K. charts in May with both the supremely catchy single "That's Not My Name" and their debut album -- and are now taking on America.


Singer/guitarist Katie White and drummer Jules de Martino performed on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Friday, and promptly launched a 10-date mini tour. Their June 13 stop at Los Angeles' Troubadour quickly sold out.


Their album, "We Started Nothing," was released June 3 in the United States via Columbia, which initially shipped 65,000 units. A May 20 digital release -- alongside a vinyl version through indie retailers -- has shifted 9,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


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De Martino says the Ting Tings emerged "accidentally" from failed band Dear Eskimo, which was dropped from Mercury U.K. before it released an album.


That experience left them "distraught," he says, but the duo's response was to throw live music parties at the artists' community where it is based in Manchester.


"We're just very lucky we met each other and got through that really awful period in our last band," de Martino says.