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SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2015

Elvis Presley’s personal jets could fetch more than $10 million

lvis Presley’s pair of personal jets, one complete with gilded wash basin and plush sleeping quarters, will Ego under the hammer in a sealed-bid auction for a piece of mile-high memorabilia, Julien’s Auctions said yesterday. Jets “Lisa Marie” and “Hound Dog II” that the late King of Rock and Roll designed him- In this July 20, 2011 file photo, , right, and , from the rock group , perform in as part of self will be offered together to bidders and are expected U2’s 360 Tour at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. — AP to fetch between $10 million and $15 million, the Beverly Hills, California, auction house said. They are no longer airworthy, but have been on view Bono says may never play for visitors at - Presley’s Memphis, Tennessee estate - for the past three decades. Presley bought the Convair 880 jet from Delta Air Lines in 1975, two years before his death at age 42, for $250,000. He named it “Lisa guitar again after bike fall Marie” after his daughter. Presley spent more than $300,000 refurbishing the jet with a penthouse bedroom, frontman Bono said he may “I personally would very much miss finger- is where we live or die... We have some executive conference room, bar and videotape system never play the guitar again ing the frets of my green Irish falcon or my extraordinary ideas our sleeve for this linked to four TVs. He had the plane painted red, white after a bicycle accident that (RED) Gretsch. Just for the pleasure, aside tour I’ve just got to be rebuilt by 14th May,” and blue with his motto “TCB” - “Takin’ Care of Business” - U2 injured his hand, shoulder, elbow and face, from writing tunes,” he added. He said the he said. He posted an X- photo of his on the tail. the Irish rocker said on his website. Bono injury has forced him to cancel all public elbow on ’s site, showing several He purchased the eight-to-10 passenger “Hound Dog fell off his bicycle in New York’s Central Park appearances and communications for the titanium pins connected to his arm bone. II,” a Lockheed Jetstar, also in 1975 for about $900,000 in November and underwent hours of first half of 2015. U2 said this month they “Here is my titanium elbow for a laugh,” he while waiting on the refurbishment of the “Lisa Marie.” intensive surgery to wash out his elbow and were planning a 2015 tour, set to start in quipped. The four-engine 28-passenger Convair could fly Presley, repair the bone with three metal plates and May, which will be the Irish band’s first since He said despite the physical injuries he who preferred to travel at night, up to 3,000 miles (4,800 18 screws. Bono said in a post on his web- 2009-2011, which was the highest-grossing sustained, the more serious damage was to kilometers). Only 65 of the Convair 880 model jets were site late Thursday that the accident was tour in history. his ego. “I broke my hand, my shoulder, produced from 1959 to 1962. The buyer also has the more serious than he thought, and may pre- After the accident, U2’s three other my elbow and my face but the real injury option to purchase several acres adjacent to Graceland to vent him from playing the guitar ever again. members said they expected the singer to this year was to my Irish pride as it was dis- display the jets, independent of the Presley museum. An “Recovery has been more difficult than I make a full recovery and that the band covered that under my tracksuit I was agreement between Graceland and the jets’ current own- thought. As I write this, it is not clear that I would be playing again soon. Bono said he wearing yellow and black Lycra cycling ers, whose identity was not disclosed, is set to expire at will ever play guitar again,” he wrote in a would focus on ahead of the shorts,” he wrote. “Yes, LYCRA. This is not the end of April. — Reuters New Year post titled “Bono’s A to Z of 2014.” scheduled tour start. “U2 is a live band. Live very rock ‘n’ roll.” — AFP West and McCartney team up on lullaby

anye West and Paul McCartney, two legendary performers West’s label Def Jam recordings. from different musical traditions, have teamed up in an “The process that would result in ‘Only One’ began with a sim- Kunlikely on a new single released Thursday ple brainstorming session between the two, with McCartney called “Only One”. The soft ballad, which West said was inspired improvising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and by his daughter, features the vocals of the world-famous rapper shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff,” it said. The song and former Beatle McCartney on the organ. The lullaby-like col- was inspired by West’s daughter North, who was sitting in his lap laboration has been in the works since early 2014, when the two when he sang to her, “Hello my only one.” West said his own met in a bungalow in Los Angeles, according to a statement from mother used to sing those words to him as a child. “My mom was singing to me-and through me-to my daugh- ter,” said the hip hop artist, whose first name also means “only one”. Def Jam called the collaboration “one of the most powerful and unexpected music in modern history”. The sin- Guitarist Slash files for gle was released late New Year’s Eve, and will be available on iTunes in 119 countries for one week. West, 37, is married to US divorce after 13 years reality television star Kim Kardashian, who sent a tweet about the new tune to her 27 million followers. uitarist Slash has filed for divorce from his wife of 13 years. “People always ask me what my favorite Kanye song is and it’s Court documents filed Tuesday in Los Angeles cite irrec- ‘Only One’. Kanye feels like his mom sang thru him to our daugh- Goncilable differences for Slash and Perla Hudson’s split. ter,” Kardashian wrote on Twitter. Slash’s real name is Saul Hudson. The former Guns N’ Roses per- “I cry every time I hear this song,” she wrote. West has fre- former and Perla were married in 2001, and he also filed for divorce in 2010, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have quently paired up with other musicians-from rapper Jay Z to two sons, 10-year-old Cash and 12-year-old . Tuesday’s British rockers -on his . -born documents say the couple separated June 15. The 49-year-old McCartney, who linked to audio of the new song on his Twitter musician has had success as a solo star and in the bands Velvet page, is one of two surviving members of . He contin- Revolver and Guns N’ Roses, with whom he was inducted into ues to play music and tour around the world. This is the first time the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. —AP and Paul McCartney the duo have worked together on a song. — AFP