Imagine…John Lennon at 70
October 11, 2010
An age progression artist Auriole Prince from Changemyface has marked the 70th anniversary of the former Beatle’s birth tomorrow by producing an image of what he would have looked like had he reached the milestone.
And despite nearly 30 years passing since Lennon was gunned down by Mark Chapman in New York, the old revolutionary is still causing trouble.
The FBI this week seized a set of Lennon’s fingerprints on a 1976
residency application. Auction website gottahaverockandroll.com was asking for £63,000 for the prints, but the FBI said they were on a government document that ‘shouldn’t have got into the stream of commerce’.
Peter Siegel, who owns the site, said the card was being sold on behalf of a private collector.
But the FBI – who had Lennon under surveillance in the early ’70s because of his anti-war activism – are reportedly trying to determine ‘how that item came to be up for auction’.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office both made phonecalls to the auctioneer to ask how a government document came to be in public ownership, and then arrived to seize the item.
Signed, sealed, undelivered: John Lennon’s application for permanent U.S. citizenship had been expected to sell for upwards of $100,000A spokesperson for the auction house said, ‘The item has been under investigation by the FBI because it is considered government property.’
Mr Siegal said: ‘I’ve been doing this 20 years and have never had this much government interest in something.
‘Here he is, one of our greatest musicians ever, and they just don’t stop investigating this guy.’
The card, which is stored in a protective plastic bag, contains all ten of Lennon’s fingerprints and bears the signature John Winston Ono Lennon in the upper left corner in blue ballpoint pen.
It was made at a Manhattan police station and stamped four times on its progress through the 1976 application process on June 2, June 6, July 8 and August 25.
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