Slices of NYC music history go under the hammer including Madonna and Bob Dylans first recordings
Rare items tied to the New York City music scene are on the auction block at Guernsey’s and will tomorrow land in the hands of lucky collectors.Personal pieces range from autographed musical instruments to history-making recordings and snapshots taken on a first date with Madonna.One things you won’t see are love letters written by the Material Girl.Former boyfriend Dan Gilroy planned on selling the sweet notes which conveyed her missing New York while on a trip to Paris and, as Gilroy put it to The Post, “little notes about how she went for a walk with Grey Boy the cat.”But Madonna put the kibosh on those being sold – Madge insisted that “she’s very protective of her writing” – and offered to sign the instruments if Gilroy, who played with her in her first NYC band, the Breakfast Club, agreed to turn over the sweet notes.“I thought they were beautiful and poetic,” Gilroy said.
“They were wonderful, but I gave them back.”Here are some of the things you can bid on when the auction begins at 2 p.m.Wednesday.Estimate: Various lots range from $800 to $5,000It was 1979 when Dan Gilroy met Madonna at a party.
“We hung out that night; then she called me the next morning and said, ‘Let’s go to the Cloisters,’” Gilroy told The Post.“So, we took a bus up there.”Gilroy had his camera with him and Madonna proved to be a game subject.
“She did all kinds of funny things,” he remembered of their first date, which is captured in the snaps for sale.“She pretended to pray to a statue, got on line behind a bunch of nuns, laid down on the bus seat and kicked her legs in the air.”Told that Madonna sounds like a lot of fun, Gilroy added, “She wanted to be noticed and was very expressive.
In fact, after she made it, Madonna said to me, ‘I used to spend all my time trying to be noticed.Now I spend all my time hiding.’”Estimate: $30,000 to $40,000Madonna and Gilroy lived in a former synagogue in the Corona neighborhood of Queens.
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