Elvis Presley's first music agency contract sold for £37,000
23 July 2017 4:04 PM GMT
American singer Elvis Presley's first music agency contract, signed by 'the King of Rock and Roll' in 1956, has been sold for £37,000 at an auction in the UK.
A pair of mint-green pyjamas, that Presley wore during his stay at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in the US in 1977, was also auctioned and fetched £8,000.
"He spent a week there recovering from exhaustion and they were left at his father's home," said Andrew Aldridge from the Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, an auction house in the UK.
After Elvis died in August 1977, aged 42, the pyjamas went on display at the world famous Elvis-A-Rama museum for many years.
His first music agency contract, signed in January 31 in 1956, was also auctioned and sold for £37,000, 'BBC News' reported. "There was significant interest in the auction from buyers all over the world especially from the US and UK both online and bidders on the phone," Aldridge said.
"The prices achieved reflect the continuing interest in the King of Rock and Roll," he said.
A softback copy of the novel "The Omen" signed by Elvis for a fan was also up for auction on Saturday.
"Elvis read, inscribed and signed this book just before his upcoming August 1977 tour, which did not take place due to his untimely death," explained Aldridge, in an email to Fox News. "He wrote 'TO MY BEST FAN your friend Elvis Presley'."
The book is accompanied by a copy of a letter dated Jan. 21 1978 from Elvis' father Vernon Presley. "Were sorry about the delay in sending you the autograph you requested. Yours on the Omen book was amongst the last to be signed," he wrote, in the letter.
Meanwhile, the elementary school stage where Elvis Presley performed is being renovated to look like it did in the 1940s when the singer graced its stage. Workers at Lawhon Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi, found original hardwood floors under the tile they were pulling up in the school's
auditorium and decided to refinish it rather than lay down something new.
"We knew it would look so good that we decided to keep them and refinish them," Tupelo Public School District director of maintenance Kirk Kitchens said of the heart pine floors, the Daily Journal reported.
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