Rolling Stones duo's hair for sale as fans shell out hundreds for stars' locks

Lock of Mick Jagger's hair expected to reach £2,000 at auction

Hair snipped from rocker's mane in early 1960s by then girlfriend

Clump of Keith Richards's mop has just sold for £900



By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:41 EST, 15 June 2013

Their music has been making millions for 50 years – but now the hair of Rolling Stones pair Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is also worth a fortune.

A lock of Jagger’s hair is up for sale at auction house Bonhams next month with a guide price of between £1,500 and £2,000. Meanwhile, a clump of Richards’s mop has just sold for £900.

Jagger’s hair was snipped from his mane in the early 1960s and kept by relatives of one of his first girlfriends, Chrissie Shrimpton, a Covent Garden secretary he famously dated while a student at the London School of Economics.


Hair-raising: A lock of Mick Jaggers hair is expected to reach between £1,500 and £2,000 when it goes on sale at auction


Lock and roll: A chunk of Keith Richards's mop cut by a 16-year-old girl has sold for £900

Their romance marked a period when Jagger lived with fellow Stone Keith Richards in Mapesbury Road, Kilburn, and then Holly Hill, Hampstead. Shrimpton, sister of model Jean Shrimpton, lived with the two rockers.

The lovers got engaged and moved into a mansion block in Regent's Park before Sir Mick - just plain old Mick back then - backed away and they split up without reaching the altar.

The guide price for the lock of hair is between £1,500 and £2,000. It is among a large collection of music and movie memorabilia, amassed from different sources, being sold by the famous auction house in Knightsbridge.


Youthful: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the early 1960s, around the time when the lock of Jagger's hair was cut


Rocks off: Mick and Keith perform with the Rolling Stones during a recent concert at TD Garden Boston, Massachusetts

The brown hair comes in "a small paper envelope" with a statement of provenance to reassure doubters.

Bonhams' catalogue guide says: 'The statement from Chrissie Shrimpton confirms that, unbeknown to her at the time, this lock was saved by her grandmother when Mick and Chrissie were staying at her parents' farm.

'Apparently, on her grandmother's death, the hair passed to Chrissie's aunt.

'When she died, the hair was returned to Chrissie by a cousin taking care of personal effects."

Money raised from the sale of the hair will go to Changing Faces, a charity which supports people with disfigurements.

Also among the lots is an 'automated' tweeting birdcage which Jagger gave to Shrimpton on her 21st birthday. The relationship with Shrimpton, now 67, ran from 1963 to 1966. The auction in Knightsbridge is on July 3.

The clump of Richards’s hair was cut from his head by 16-year-old fan Maggie Richardson in the Stones’ dressing room in Preston, Lancashire, in 1964.


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Mick Jagger's hair up for sale

Published June 16, 2013
FoxNews.com


Maybe you can always get what you want.

The British auction house Bonhams plans to place a few locks from the Rolling Stones front man’s mop up for sale July 3 with an estimated sale price between $2,300 and $3,100, according to its website.

The amount reportedly falls between that which was previously fetched for Keith Richards’ and John Dillinger’s hair, but a sum far short of a sample once stowed from none other than Abraham Lincoln’s pate.

The lock reportedly dates to Sir Mick’s younger days in the early-to-mid 1960s -- when he ironically could better part with a few strands -- or the period when the Rolling Stones were still little more than an idea.

The clump, according to the auctioneer, is Chrissie Shrimpton's, who the music man reportedly dated in the early 1960s, during-and-just-after his time as a London School of Economics student. Jagger quit the school in 1963 after weighing a career in either journalism or politics, and continued on to rock n’ roll fame.

Bonhams writes of Lot 20711 that Shrimpton’s grandmother collected the then-freshly washed lock without her granddaughter’s knowledge during an outing the then-couple took to the Shrimpton family's country estate.

“Apparently, on her grandmother's death, the hair passed to Chrissie's aunt and when she died, the hair was returned to Chrissie by a cousin taking care of personal effects,” the auction house writes before adding that the proceeds from the sale of Jagger’s hair will go to the charity, Changing Faces.

On a related note, The New York Times reports the market for similarly famous hair has ramped up, of late.
In a late 2012 article, The Times notes that “a single mustache hair pulled from John Dillinger’s death mask was part of a crime artifact lot that brought $5,400 at RR Auction in New Hampshire.”

Meanwhile, a lock of Ulysses S. Grant’s hair reportedly once fetched $5,975, while one from his one-time boss, Abraham Lincoln, brought $38,837. The Times, rounding out the matter, noted some hair once belonging to Robert E. Lee, sold for $12,500 at Doyle auction house in Manhattan.
But it seems that Jagger may have his band mate Keith Richards beaten on the hair front, as a clump of the guitarist's mop reportedly fetched only $1,400 during a recent auction.


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