Koleksi Surat Cinta Mick Jagger Terjual Hampir Rp3 Miliar
A Collection Love Letters Mick Jagger Fetch US$300 Ribu
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Translator : Dhelia Gani
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London (B2B) - Koleksi surat cinta yang ditulis Mick Jagger, pentolan Rolling Stones, untuk penyanyi Amerika Marsha Hunt yang dipercaya menjadi inspirasi di balik single "Brown Sugar", laku di acara balai lelang Sotheby seharga 187.250 pounds (sekitar Rp2,7 miliar).
Sepuluh pucuk surat yang ditulis sejak musim panas 1969 itu awalnya diperkirakan akan terjual seharga 70 ribu hingga 100 ribu pounds, kata pelelang.
"Peralihan zaman yang tertera dalam surat-surat itu membuatnya pantas menjadi bagian dari sejarah budaya kita," kata Hunt setelah pelelangan di London pada Rabu lalu.
"Tahun 1969 itu era revolusioner yang sangat dipengaruhi seniman seperti The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, dan Bob Dylan."
"Pemikiran mereka seharusnya tidak hanya menjadi milik keluarganya, tapi juga untuk konsumsi publik, untuk membeberkan sisi pribadi dari para seniman itu, tidak hanya sisi yang diperlihatkan secara komersil."
Hunt yang menjadi ibu dari anak pertama Jagger, Karis, mengatakan pada koran Guardian bulan lalu bahwa dia akan menjual surat-surat yang ditulis pada Juli dan Agustus 1969 karena dia butuh uang untuk membayar pengeluaran.
"Saya bangkrut," kata Hunt yang tinggal di Prancis.
Jagger menulis surat cinta untuk Hunt saat syuting film Tony Richardson "Ned Kelly" di Australia.
Mereka menunjukkan sisi sensitif dari penyanyi muda itu yang menulis puisi tentang Emily Dickinson, pertemuan dengan penulis Christopher Isherwood, dan proyek multimedia yang belum terlaksana.
Hubungan Jagger dengan Hunt yang berdarah Afrika-Amerika dirahasiakan hingga 1972.
Hunt mengatakan, dia adalah inspirasi di balik "Brown Sugar" yang ditulis Jagger saat dia berada di Australia.
Sang bintang rock itu juga menulis tentang putus hubungan dengan penyanyi Marianne Faithfull, perempuan yang dipacarinya bersamaan dengan Hunt. Juga, tentang kematian gitaris Rolling Stones, Brian Jones.
Rolling Stones kembali beraksi tahun ini karena Jagger dan tiga kawan bandnya merayakan peringatan ke-50 tahun Stones dengan beragam konser, photo book, dan album greatest hits.
London - A collection of love letters written by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to American singer Marsha Hunt, believed to be the inspiration for the band's hit single "Brown Sugar", sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday for 187,250 pounds ($301,000).
The 10 letters, dating from the summer of 1969, had been expected to fetch 70-100,000 pounds, according to the auctioneer.
"The passage of time has given these letters a place in our cultural history," Hunt said after the London sale.
"1969 saw the ebbing of a crucial, revolutionary era, highly influenced by such artists as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown and Bob Dylan.
"Their inner thoughts should not be the property of only their families, but the public at large, to reveal who these influential artists were - not as commercial images, but their private selves."
Hunt, with whom Jagger had his first child, Karis, told Britain's Guardian newspaper last month that she was selling the letters, written in July and August 1969, because she had been unable to pay her bills.
"I'm broke," Hunt, who lives in France, told the newspaper.
Jagger wrote them to Hunt while filming the Tony Richardson movie "Ned Kelly" in Australia.
They showed a sensitive side of the then-young singer, who wrote about the poetry of Emily Dickinson, meeting author Christopher Isherwood and an unrealized multimedia project.
Jagger's relationship with Hunt, who is African-American, was kept under wraps until 1972.
Hunt has said she was the inspiration for Brown Sugar, which Jagger wrote while in Australia.
The rock star also cites in the letters the disintegration of his relationship with singer Marianne Faithfull, whom he was also dating at the time, and the death of Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones.
There has been a surge in interest in the rock band this year, as Jagger and his three surviving bandmates celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stones with a series of concerts, a photo book and a greatest hits album.
