Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, Paul McCartney,Patti Smith, Bob Dylan items going missing and hidden for ages,until they eventually turn up in the last place you'd expect to find them.
An inspirational tale for jumble enthusiasts all over the world. A long-time Motown fan bought some old LPs at the estate sale of a deceased Motown musician for 50 cents, and found some unexpected treasure hidden inside once he got his spoils home: soul legend Marvin Gaye's passport. "When I got home, I was going through them and out of an album fell this passport," he said. "And so it literally fell into my hands."
The Detroit native - who worked at the Motown museum - took the document to the US version of the Antiques Roadshow, where appraiser Laura Wooley valued it at roughly £12,300. "It's not a really common thing to see Marvin Gaye memorabilia".
David Bowie's first ever demo (in a bread basket)
In 1963, The Konrads recorded a handful of songs in an attempt to impress the bigwigs at Decca records. One of the tracks they cut was I Never Dreamed, a track sung (and co-written) by one of their members, a 16-year-old hopeful called David Jones. Decca rejected the tape but did grant the group an audition a few months later, by which point Roger Ferris had taken over vocal duties. By the time Jones had left, changed his name to Bowie and become one of music's most iconic heroes, the tape was thought to be long-gone - until the Konrads' drummer, David Hadfield, discovered a copy in his bread basket while moving house in the 90s.
Paul McCartney's trousers (hanging up in Bridlington)
Mike Hoggard was packing up his house in Bridlington when he rediscovered an old pair of leather trousers he claimed he'd inherited 50 years earlier, from Paul McCartney. Hoggard told the BBC they were given to him in the 1960s by the Fab Four's manager, Brian Epstein. His group, the Yorkshire Jazz Band, had played at Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club and were supported by the pre-fame Beatles.
"The trousers were in a bag hanging up," he said. "Epstein said to take them because he wanted to get them out of the leather and into these suits. So I took them and I wore them. At the time they weren't famous at all, so there was no sort of thought about, 'I've got something that's massively invaluable,' or anything like that - [I] just fancied a pair of leather trousers."
Hoggard planned on selling the trousers, which had 'Paul' written inside them; his son-in-law, Paul Bennett-Todd, said he was convinced they were the real deal after studying photos of Paul seemingly wearing them at the Cavern Club: "We can see creases that are indicative of the way that a person might wear those trousers - it's like a fingerprint, almost. They're exactly the right inside leg measurement and they're exactly the right waist measurement."
Clothes stolen from Patti Smith (in a Bob Dylan bag)
Unlike Cindy, Noreen Bender knew for years that she had a treasure trove of pop loot in her house. For nearly four decades, Bender kept various items which had been stolen from singer Patti Smith's tour van in 1979, including a top she wore on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1978 and a remembrance cloth that had belonged to her late brother and manager, Todd Smith.
"I knew I had to get it back to her. It's not for a stranger," Bender told the Chicago Tribune (via BBC). She said she'd been given them by the friend of an old roommate who worked for moving company U-Haul ("I just thought, 'Oh my god, these are her clothes and they still have her sweat on them'") and kept them hidden away in a Bob Dylan bag until 2015, when she returned them personally to Smith at a book reading.
A report from an online forum revealed: "Patti looked inside and just froze… [she] pulls out these items of clothing and talks about them (the shirt she wore on the Rolling Stone cover, the Keith Richards t-shirt you've seen her wear in a hundred photos) and then gets to the bottom of the bag
Aerosmith's tour bus (on private land in Massachusetts)
Last month, the team on History Channel's American Pickers went to the woods in Massachusetts at the behest of a man, Phil, who said he'd found a van on his property when he first purchased the land. It wasn't any ordinary vehicle: the custom-painted 1964 International Harvester Metro was the first ever tour van used by Aerosmith, but it went missing in the 70s.
American Pickers used their contacts to prove its authenticity. First, one of the show's presenters, Mike Wolfe, got in touch with his friend Dan Auerbach, frontman of The Black Keys. He sent photos of the van to Aerosmith's Joe Perry, who then called one of the band's other founding members, Ray Tabano, who went to investigate in person. "I'm afraid to say how long it is, but it's been like 40 years since we've been in this thing," he said. American Pickers forked out over $25,000 to take the van home.
Noel Gallagher's space rock album (in his sock drawer)
The singer claimed the finished record was so "underwhelming" he'd destroyed the master, and that was that - until he revealed last month a surviving copy had turned up in the oddest of places. "I did find a copy of it recently in a sock drawer," he said (via NME). "It might be nice to go back and revisit it in years to come… Best to give it a bit of distance, though, I think."
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