未発表曲含むジョン・レノンの録音テープ、競売に　デンマーク

【コペンハーゲンＡＦＰ＝時事】英ロックバンド「ビートルズ」の元メンバー、ジョン・レノンの未発表曲を収めた録音テープが２８日、デンマークの首都コペンハーゲンで競売にかけられる。オークションハウスが１４日、発表した。（写真はフランス・カンヌを訪れたジョン・レノン＜右＞と妻のオノ・ヨーコさん）
　３３分にわたるテープは、レノンがデンマークを訪れた１９７０年に録音されたもの。落札予想価格は２万７０００～４万ユーロ（約３５０万～５２０万円）となっている。
　出品者は男性４人で、１０代の時に、１９６９～７０年の冬の一時期をデンマーク西岸の小さな町で過ごしていたレノンと面会した。
　オークションを開催するブルン・ラスムッセンのアレクサ・ブルン・ラスムッセン氏は、「テープには会話が収められており、他に類を見ない。記者会見の後に録音されたもので、レノンは学生４人と数人の記者のために何曲か歌った」とＡＦＰに語った。そのうちの１曲「ラジオ・ピース」が未発表だという。
　「これはデンマークの歴史の一片だが、聞いてみるとレノンがデンマークでリラックスしていたことが分かる。干渉されず、ありのままでいられたのだろう」とラスムッセン氏は語った。
　レノンと妻のオノ・ヨーコさんは１９６９年末、ヨーコさんが別の男性との間にもうけた娘キョーコさんと過ごすためにデンマークを訪れた。キョーコさんは当時、父親とユトランド半島北部に住んでいた。
　レノンは１９８０年、妄想に駆られていたとされるマーク・デービッド・チャップマン受刑者に米ニューヨークで射殺された。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/09/16-13:26）

A 1970 audio recording of John Lennon singing a hitherto unpublished song during a visit to Denmark will go under the hammer in Copenhagen on September 28, the auction house said Tuesday.
The asking price for the 33-minute recording has been estimated at between 27,000 and 40,000 euros ($32,000-$47,000).
It has been put up for sale by four men who were teenagers when they met The Beatles' singer, who was spending part of the 1969-1970 winter in a small town on Denmark's west coast.
The tape is totally unique because it's a conversation. It took place after a press conference with the four schoolboys and some journalists, and John Lennon plays a few songs for them, Alexa Bruun Rasmussen of the Bruun Rasmussen auction house told AFP.
One of them, 'Radio Peace', has never been published, she said.
It's a little piece of Danish history and when we listen to it, we can sense that John Lennon felt cosy in Denmark. He could be left alone and just be, she said.
At the end of December 1969, Lennon visited Denmark with Yoko Ono to spend time with Ono's daughter from another relationship, Kyoko, who was living with her father in northern Jutland at the time.
The visit, which lasted several weeks, went largely unnoticed at first. But once his presence was discovered, the star called a press conference.
Due to a series of unforeseeable events and bad weather, the four high school students ended up interviewing Lennon after the press conference, in an informal setting.
I believe they were experiencing 'hygge', the currently on-trend Danish art de vivre of making everyday life cosy and convivial, joked Bruun Rasmussen.
During the interview, conducted just months before The Beatles broke up, the teens were mainly interested in Lennon's peace activism.
With the auction, they want to pass on the message John Lennon stood for, Bruun Rasmussen said.
She noted the old-fashioned charm of the recording, which is being sold with photos of the meeting and the issue of the school newspaper featuring the interview.
To listen to the 33 minutes of the tape you need an old-fashioned cassette player and I guess that nostalgia part will add to its value.
Lennon was shot dead by an apparently delusional gunman, Mark David Chapman, who had earlier asked for an autograph, in New York in 1980.