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| Mick Jagger’s love letters fetch more than RM900,000 Posted: 14 Dec 2012 03:05 AM PST A COLLECTION of letters sent by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his secret lover in the summer of 1969 sold for £187,250 (RM921,906) at a London auction on Wednesday, trumping their pre-sale estimate of £70,000 to £100,000 (RM344,638 to RM492,279). The letters were written to black American singer Marsha Hunt, aged 23 at the time, while Jagger was filming the movie Ned Kelly in Australia. "We are delighted with the result of today's sale which reflects the great significance of these letters, written at such a vivid moment in social and musical history," said Sotheby's books specialist Gabriel Heaton. "There has been enormous international interest in the letters, which depict Mick Jagger not as the global superstar he is today but as a poetic, self-aware 25-year-old with wide-ranging intellectual and artistic interests." Hunt, who starred in the original London cast of hit musical Hair and was the poster girl of the "Black is Beautiful" movement, had an initially clandestine affair with the rocker when interracial relationships were taboo. "But 1969 saw the ebbing of a crucial, revolutionary era, highly influenced by such artists as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown and Bob Dylan," Hunt said after the sale. "Their inner thoughts should not be the property of only their families, but the public at large, to reveal who these artists were – not as commercial images, but their private selves." Written after the Stones' historic Hyde Park gig, the letters illustrate Jagger's musings on topics like the moon landing, his future relationship with Hunt, his impressions of the Australian Outback and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Hunt is the inspiration behind the Stones' 1971 hit Brown Sugar and became the mother of Jagger's first child, Karis. – AFP |
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