Cassette with John Lennon interview sold for 370,000 Danish kroner

The recording, made over half a century ago, sold for 370,000 Danish kroner. Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP

On January 5, 1970, an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono was recorded on tape in Thy, Denmark. The cassette has now been sold for 370,000 Danish kroner.

The sum corresponds to approximately NOK 504,235.

With the purchase, the buyer also received several photographs of Lennon, Ono, and her daughter Kyoko Chan Cox, as well as a school magazine.

Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP

On the cassette tape, which has a 33-minute recording, four 16-year-old schoolboys interview the Beatles star. In addition, it contains audio of Lennon and Ono singing a couple of songs. At the time of the recording, Lennon and Ono were spending about a month in Denmark visiting Kyoko, who had moved to Jutland with her father.

The cassette, which has never been released before, was sold at the auction house Bruun Rasmussen. The value was estimated at 200,000-300,000 Danish kroner.

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