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Fleetwood Owen Hold Celebrity Auction in London
Aired July 24, 2001 - 08:18 ET
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COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, we've got a celebrity auction to tell you about. This one is going to happen July 31. It's going to happen at the Planet Hollywood in London. Lots of interesting stuff from celebrities.
And guess who's behind it? Mick Fleetwood, drummer from Fleetwood Mac, and also, Ted Owen, who is the founder of this London- based auction house. It's called the Fleetwood-Owen Auction House. And they're going to join us right now to tell us what this is all about.
Gentlemen, thanks very much for being here.
MICK FLEETWOOD, DRUMMER, FLEETWOOD MAC: Good morning.
TED OWEN, FOUNDER, FLEETWOOD-OWEN AUCTION HOUSE: Good morning to you.
MCEDWARDS: We start with you, Mick, what's this auction all about? What does the money go towards?
FLEETWOOD: The money goes towards the clients who we're representing. This is definitely not a charity, but it's a movie- based auction featuring anything from "Aliens" to "Sundance Kid," who -- behind me we have -- what do we have here, Ted? We have...
OWEN: You have Tom Cruise's shirt...
FLEETWOOD: Tom Cruise's shirt.
OWEN: ... from "Mission Impossible."
FLEETWOOD: Yes, Stanley Kubrick's Mercedes, who has sadly passed away, but the car actually he took from -- and his -- Nicole, his now wife -- about not to be -- to move it to the movie set every morning. So it really is a very eclectic sale right across the movie business. We're...
MCEDWARDS: Yes, for profit -- for profit and nostalgia, I guess, isn't it? I mean, Ted, who collects this stuff?
OWEN: Well, there are all sorts of collectors. And in the last couple of years, we've been looking at museums, investors, all sorts of people. The interesting thing, like you were saying about this sale, is that it is being held over two continents.
And Fleetwood-Owen today are announcing that they've just merged with eWanted.com, which is a Silicon Valley-based, San Francisco-based company, who are enabling us to reach a much wider market with a new emporium which we're launching which is fixed prices. So people will be able to buy -- just fans will be able to buy now. They can come out and buy something for $20 -- anything up from $20 right the way through to the high-end pieces at $100,000 like the moon buggy.
There'll be many ways for which people can bid. They can bid live by telephone, they can bid live over the Internet through eBay or they can bid -- leave bids on -- commission bids on Fleetwood-Owen, commission bids on eWanted, bid by fax. So we're covering the whole multimedia and that's what Fleetwood-Owen are all about, in getting people in, not letting them be intimidated by this big sort of frightening auction experience. We want it to be fun for everyone.
And our event in San Francisco, I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun. Mick's going to be there signing autographs, and the whole thing is going to be a fun-driven event and hopefully a very successful one.
MCEDWARDS: All right. Ted,...
FLEETWOOD: Show time.
MCEDWARDS: Ted, you just mentioned the moon buggy. I guess I can't let that go. That's a -- that's a bit of James Bond material for anyone who's interested in James Bond.
Mick, can you -- can you tell us more about what you've got there? Have you got anything else there with you that you can kind of point to and highlight for us?
FLEETWOOD: Yes. Actually there's something that's sort of highly relevant. We have "Harry Potter" and it's signed by the young gentlemen...
OWEN: Daniel Radcliffe.
FLEETWOOD: Yes, the young actor who's...
(CROSSTALK)
FLEETWOOD: ... in the film. So this will be -- for instance, this is a very good example about buying a piece that's in the here and now -- 15, 20, 30 years from now, this will have a much greater value than the buyer that's going to buying it, hopefully, at this sale. Here you have the tail section from the "Aliens" film. The...
MCEDWARDS: There it is.
FLEETWOOD: ... wretched monster. Here we have Paul Newman's saddlebag from the "Sundance Kid." I don't know whether it's stashed with money. We're maybe thinking it is.
MCEDWARDS: You may want to open it and check.
OWEN: Gold, it might be.
FLEETWOOD: Gold. Gold, yes...
(CROSSTALK)
MCEDWARDS: I don't think it looks heavy enough, Mick.
FLEETWOOD: And this is just something which is sort of -- and certainly not from a movie, but there's certainly been a lot of movies made about this man. This is Sir Winston Churchill's hat. And Ted's going to tell you the type of hat it is. What is it? It's a...
OWEN: He called it a boka (ph).
FLEETWOOD: A boka.
OWEN: It was his own name for it because it's in between the bowler -- and the boka part of it was something that he had custom- made.
FLEETWOOD: How do I look?
OWEN: You look beautiful.
FLEETWOOD: I mean...
OWEN: This is...
MCEDWARDS: It's perfect.
OWEN: This is a good one, Mick. How do I look?
(LAUGHTER)
FLEETWOOD: I feel better now.
MCEDWARDS: You don't look -- you don't look like a pair -- you don't.
Mick...
FLEETWOOD: But, no, we are definitely a pair.
OWEN: A whole...
MCEDWARDS: Mick, I'm wondering -- I'm wondering if this is personal for you at all? I mean does this stuff sort of touch your heart in a way? Are you a collector?
FLEETWOOD: Absolutely. I actually became a collector a few years back of, believe it or not, of Fleetwood Mac posters, because I suddenly realized that I hadn't paid any attention at all to any of my history and I sort of regretted it. Being now 54 years old, I thought I'd better try and find out from whence I came and found posters from English pubs, you know, come see Fleetwood Mac for five shillings, you know, back when the band first started back in '67. So this is all about very often tracing your roots.
OWEN: History.
FLEETWOOD: There's a lot of emotional content with many of these items to people. Certainly in the music business, which we've had some fantastic musical auction there -- it's very connected to history and where people associate themselves, and also the fact that it's actually really good -- it's a lot of fun. We try to put on a sense of putting on a show. Our affiliation with the merger we've just done is to really form, in essence, really an entertainment company that brings all these elements into play...
MCEDWARDS: Right.
FLEETWOOD: ... where this can be a lot of fun. It also is a darn good investment very often...
MCEDWARDS: Well,...
FLEETWOOD: ... that you can start relatively inexpensively sometimes.
MCEDWARDS: ... it sounds really...
FLEETWOOD: And you don't have to -- no, you don't have to spend the $2 million that we attained on one of our first auctions for the John Lennon piano.
MCEDWARDS: Yes, it sounds...
FLEETWOOD: But...
MCEDWARDS: It sounds really interesting, gentlemen, and I'm sorry we've...
FLEETWOOD: Yes.
MCEDWARDS: ... got to leave it there. Best of luck with it.
Mick Fleetwood and Ted Owen,...
OWEN: Thank you.
MCEDWARDS: ... it was an honor and a pleasure. Thanks so much.
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