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John Lennon's 10cm locks sell for USD 35,000

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Press Trust of India Houston
Last Updated : Feb 21 2016 | 6:32 PM IST
A lock of hair snipped from the head of John Lennon 50 years ago as he prepared for a film role has been bought by a British collector for USD 35,000.
Paul Fraser, a United Kingdom-based memorabilia collector bought the 10cm hair at an auction in the US, media reports said.
The hair was kept by a German barber who gave him a trim as he was about to film 'How I Won The War in 1966'.
"This is the largest lock of Lennon's hair ever sold at auction," Spokesman of Dallas-based Heritage Auctions Garry Schrum said yesterday.
Schrum said the bidder got a "good chunk of Lennon's hair".
Lennon's locks were chopped by Klaus Baruck in Hamburg, Germany, just before the rocker's starring role as Gripweed in Richard Lester's dark comedy about a British army platoon and their misadventures in World War II.
The haircut took place just a month after the release of the band's legendary 1966 Revolver album.
Lennon, English singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. Lennon died in 1980 at the age of 40.

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First Published: Feb 21 2016 | 6:32 PM IST

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