It makes me curious tho, why hasn't Madonna kept much of her stuff for herself? Elvis and Cher did :P
Care to buy Madonna's tassel bustier?
Veteran US host Dick Clark selling his rock 'n' roll memorabilia, part of money to go to charity
October 27, 2006
THEY are all sitting pretty in a 2,520 sq m (the size of 10 tennis courts) California warehouse.
A bustier, with cups capped by gold sequins and black tassels, worn by Madonna in her Open Your Heart video. -- AP, REUTERS
And now their owner, TV show host Dick Clark (left), is ready to have a change of wardrobe.
Clark, famous for hosting American Bandstand, a dance music TV show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989. The show showcased new performers (from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC) and evolving dance styles through the decades.
Thousands of pieces in Clark's personal memorabilia collection are set to be auctioned on 5 and 6 Dec by Guernsey's Auction House in New York.
HE KEPT EVERYTHING
A self-described 'true pack rat', Clark said: 'I finally decided that it was time to pass it to a generation of people who would enjoy it before this stuff gets too old...
'I've got every Life magazine that was ever printed, because my grandmother saved them for me. I've got most of the Playboy magazines. I've got Fortune - lovely photographs in there.
I saved everything.'
A suit that was worn onstage by Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger. -- AP, REUTERS
The famed host is also auctioning off the microphone he used for 31 years on American Bandstand.
'It's tough to part with that one. It was an extension of my right arm..
. I held on to it for several hours a day, every day,' Clark, 76, said of the microphone, which is valued between US$10,000 ($15,700) and US$100,000.
Apart from the things pictured on this page, other items to be sold include:
A left-handed bass guitar that Paul McCartney played when he was a Beatle
The harmonica that Bob Dylan played in The Last Waltz
A suit John Lennon wore as a Beatle, and a sign reading 'Hair Peace' he wrote and posted on his Montreal hotel window
An electric guitar Bruce Springsteen gave to Clark, with the words, 'From one of the world's oldest teenagers to another'.
Guernsey's said it would be a no-reserve auction, with everything selling for the highest bid.
Much of the profits from the sale will go to the T J Martell Foundation, which was founded by the music industry to raise money for research on cancer and Aids.
- Wire services.