An iconic leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson during the 1980s has been sold for £250,000 ($306,000) at an auction. The black-and-white garment, seen in a Pepsi ad, was expected to sell for between £200,000 and £400,000 at the auction. Over 200 pieces of music memorabilia, including a jacket worn by George Michael and a hairpiece by Amy Winehouse, were sold in London on Friday.
The items included those associated with David Bowie, Oasis, and The Beatles. Jackson donned the jacket in 1984 for the first of a series of Pepsi commercials. The adverts are mainly remembered for the star’s hair catching fire during one filming session, resulting in severe burns. At the time, he was wearing a different jacket.
Michael wore his La Rocka jacket—a popular item in the 1980s—while doing a duet with US singer Aretha Franklin for the song I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me). The jacket sold for £93,750 ($115,000) during the four-day Propstore entertainment sale. This was significantly more than the guide price, set between £30,000 and £60,000.
Other popular items on sale included a beehive hairpiece worn by Amy Winehouse, who wore it in the music video for You Know I’m No Good from her album Back To Black, as well as items belonging to Elvis Presley, Queen, and Johnny Marr. Although a Gibson guitar, which belonged to AC/DC’s Angus Young, did not sell, many of the monumentally historic items became available to purchase publicly for the first time ever.
Michael’s memorabilia has previously sold for thousands, including a black fedora hat that he wore before performing his memorable moonwalk for the first time in 1983. Last September, the hat sold for €77,640 (£67,088) at a Paris auction
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