Single Michael Jackson Glove Sold for Over $300K

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A single glove worn by Michael Jackson on his Bad tour sold for $330,000 on Saturday.

The glove drew the highest price at the "Icons and Idols" auction, held at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills. Other Jackson items that were sold include a signed jacket and a fedora he wore onstage, which went for $96,000 and $72,000 respectively. A costume made for Jackson's pet chimp Bubbles was also reportedly up for auction, but it is unknown whether it sold.

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Other Jackson gloves have drawn big prices. Last year, one that the singer wore during his famous "Moonwalk" performance in 1983 went for $350,000, and a glove thrown by Jackson to an Australian fan during a 1996 concert sold for nearly $50,000.

Michael Jackson Glove Sells for $330,000 at Auction [BBC via ]

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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