Michael Jackson jacket up for auction

Pop culture and celebrity memorabilia specialists Julien’s Auctions will host a two-day sale that includes items owned by some of the music industry’s most famous figures. The jacket Michael Jackson wore for the duration of his Bad tour is the star item in the sale, estimated to fetch up to US$100,000 (Dh367,250). That’s a relatively conservative estimate, given that the singer’s red and black leather jacket, from the Thriller music video, sold at auction in 2011 for $1.8 million to Texas businessman and philanthropist Milton Verret, the current owner and seller of the Bad jacket. Other items in the two-day Icons & Idols: Rock ’N’ Roll sale include: the white Collings 290 guitar Prince played in his final stage performance at a Ray Charles tribute concert on March 12, 2016; a custom-made jacquard cropped tuxedo jacket worn by Madonna in the 1985 cult classic Desperately Seeking Susan; a group of magnetic tape recordings of tracks from Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland (1968), including a live studio jam of Voodoo Child with Steve Winwood, from Traffic, on organ and Jack Casady, from Jefferson Airplane on bass with Hendrix’s own handwritten notations; a 14K gold TCB “Taking Care of Business” necklace worn by Elvis Presley during his 1969 engagement in Las Vegas; a group of four White Albums, each signed by a band member of the Beatles and one with Yoko Ono’s signature; David Bowie’s orange boiler suit worn in the video Jazzin’ for Blue

Jean (1984); and a black Eric Clapton “Blackie” signature Fender Stratocaster signed by Clapton and B B King.