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Don’t Shoot the Piano: John Lennon’s “Imagine” Keyboard Becomes USA’s Leading Death Tourist
By Kyle | August 2, 2007
A very funny story in today’s Wall Street Journal tells how George Michael bought the piano on which John Lennon wrote “Imagine” and has been parking it in spots all over the U.S. where people died horribly, to provide the news that people should be more gooder to each other, or something.
Among the disaster-recovery areas where the piano has showed up are the Virginia Tech campus (see pic above) and even Katrinaland in New Orleans, as if to say: Hey, Mother Nature, can’t you stop hurting innocent people? Columbine turned it down, apparently feeling a slight publicity burnout, but Oklahoma City said OK to it.
The piano, which George Michael bought at auction in 2000 for $2.1 million, is being  plopped down in public areas where anyone can walk up to it and play it (or, if they’re feeling slightly ironical, set fire to it.) Maybe it’s headed for the Minneapolis bridge collapse site next? In late September, maybe it will have to be shipped up to Fenway Park to commemorate another Boston Red Sox meltdown.ÂÂ
August 20th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
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