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NEW
YORK (Reuters) —
The album John
Lennon autographed for his assassin just five hours before the
former Beatle was killed went up for sale on Friday for
$525,00.
The copy of
Lennon and wife Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy," which
sold for $460,000 four years ago, is being sold in part due to
the recent frenzy of interest in Beatles memorabilia,
according to the owner of the Web site selling the album.
" Beatles
memorabilia is at an all-time peak," said Gary Zimet,
owner of http:/www.momentsintime.com. "For years, their
material was grossly undervalued."
Last week,
Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the song "Nowhere
Man" were sold at Christie's for $455,000 more than four
times the expected price.
According to the
site, the album's cover and dust jacket contain the
"forensically enhanced" fingerprints of Lennon's
killer, Mark David Chapman.
Chapman
shot the pop star outside the Dakota apartment building,
Lennon's Manhattan home, on December 8, 1980. The album was
later found in a flower planter near the building and was used
as evidence against Chapman.
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