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It's Wednesday.

Sorry about the other day.

I had a place to go to.

It was called a hospital.

And very nice it was too. And next week

in hospital again on the Thursday. But it doesn't make any difference actually because I'll be here

that morning and I'll be here the following morning as well. So Elvis, Elvis, if I haven't had an

Elvis Presley story for ages. But here is one that he used during his comeback in 1968. It has just sold,

how much to reckon, at auction, Elvis Presley's guitar. I mean, it comes with the provenance that it

was Elvis Presley's and he launched his iconic comeback with it. $450,000. I mean, the guitar itself is not worth $450,000, but it's, it's good. They haven't seen

anything like it in public for the past 52 years. Whoever's got it has got something that is

really, really, because people buy memorabilia. They buy memorabilia from pop stars, but you've got

to be big enough to get the money.

You know, they're not going to give something to, I don't know, I mean, the Beatles would always sell.

You know, there'd be loads of other people, but loads of other groups, you could probably have all sorts of things.

Debbie Reynolds was the one who seemed to own lots of outfits from, I think, Michael Jackson.

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