Death and taxes

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The Scotsman

Who star's #1.1m sale
by JOHN INNES

ROCK legend John Entwistles 150 guitars - and almost everything else he 
owned - fetched #1.1 million at Sothebys in London yesterday, twice as much 
as expected.

Fans from all over the world - including America, Australia, Japan, Germany 
and Switzerland - flocked to the saleroom for the disposal of The Who stars 
collection of instruments, suits of armour, antique firearms, stage costumes 
and awards as well as casts of big-game fish he caught. The auction was 
ordered by Entwistles family to pay crippling death duties.

Highlights of the sale included his rare 1958 Gibson Explorer guitar, which 
fetched #95,200 from an American fan.

Entwistles favourite guitar - a pink Fender Precision bass, affectionately 
known as Frankenstein after he put it together from five smashed instruments 
- went to a British fan for #62,400, ten times more than anticipated.

Entwistle, 57, regarded as one of the worlds greatest bass guitarists, died 
from a heart attack after taking drugs with a stripper in a Las Vegas hotel 
last June.

His son, Chris, 31, said: "Dad would have hated it. The government want 40 
per cent of my fathers estate, including the house. The only way to raise 
the money is to sell."

Entwistle teamed up with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon to 
form The Who in 1964.

Their hits included My Generation, Substitute, Im a Boy, Happy Jack, 
Pictures of Lily and Pinball Wizard.

-Brian in Atlanta

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