Most expensive piano sold at auction

The highest price ever paid for a piano was established at an auction held at London's Hard Rock Cafe on 17 October 2000, when a Steinway Model Z upright, once owned by John Lennon (UK), sold for £1.45 million (then $2.1 million) to George Michael (UK). The piano, seen in video footage recorded during the sessions for Lennon¹s Imagine LP, and on which he wrote the album's famous title song, has been labelled "one of the most prestigious items of pop memorabilia to ever go on the market". It was bought by Lennon in 1970. Prior to the sale it had been on loan to the Beatles Story Experience in Liverpool by a private collector.