{"id":30920,"date":"2024-11-22T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/piano-once-owned-by-fleetwood-macs-stevie-nicks-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:03:12","slug":"piano-once-owned-by-fleetwood-macs-stevie-nicks-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/piano-once-owned-by-fleetwood-macs-stevie-nicks-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano once owned by Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Stevie Nicks up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-22\/M_StevieNicks_112224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Randy Holmes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A piano once owned by <strong>Stevie Nicks<\/strong> is on the auction block.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gottahaverockandroll.com\/Stevie_Nicks_Owned___Played_Grand_Hamilton_Piano__-LOT56052.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Gotta Have Rock and Roll<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> is handling the sale of the Hamilton grand piano, which was used to write such <strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong> tunes as \u201cSara&#8221; and \u201cSongbird.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Described as \u201cdebatably the most important piano ever offered for public auction,\u201d the piano was\u00a0one of two\u00a0 Stevie had in her home in the &#8217;70s. In 1979 it went on tour with the band and was played onstage by <strong>Christine McVie<\/strong> until around 1982 or 1983; Christine also\u00a0wrote &#8220;Songbird&#8221; on it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The piano was eventually returned to Stevie&#8217;s home.\u00a0Musician\u00a0<strong>Robbie Patton<\/strong>, a friend of Stevie&#8217;s who worked with her during that time, was eventually gifted the piano by Stevie as payment for a song they wrote together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He went on to use it in the studio with\u00a0several other big-name musicians, including <strong>Elton John<\/strong> and <strong>Queen<\/strong>, with Patton noting both Elton and <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> actually played it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe people who have touched this piano are crazy!&#8221; he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bidding on the piano is open until Dec. 16, and it is expected to sell for between $100,000 and $200,000. The piano also comes with letters of authenticity by Nicks and McVie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Randy Holmes A piano once owned by Stevie Nicks is on the auction block. Gotta Have Rock and Roll is handling the sale of the Hamilton grand piano, which was used to write such Fleetwood Mac tunes as \u201cSara&#8221; and \u201cSongbird.&#8221; Described as \u201cdebatably the most important piano ever offered<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/piano-once-owned-by-fleetwood-macs-stevie-nicks-up-for-auction\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}