Fame Or Fortune? Guests left disappointed with appraisal
Fake or Fortune expert Philip Mould apologies to guests after revealing devastating news from a pop legend about their items. During Thursday's episode of the BBC hit show, Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould took on the fast-growing market for rock music memorabilia.
Philip was joined by Niki and Kerry, who believed they owned a Hawaiian steel guitar called 'Silver Queen' that they believed once belonged to Ronnie Wood or Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
The sisters from Surrey revealed that the guitar once belonged to their late father, who worked as a landscape gardener for Ronnie in the '70s after he moved to The Wick in Richmond, London.
Revealing how their dad managed to get the guitar, Niki explained that Ronnie's girlfriend Anita Pallenberg told him and others to take what they wanted from the house when the Rolling Stones left the country.
Later on in the show, Niki and Kerry joined Philip in the gallery to find out whether the guitar their father salvaged from the Wic ever belonged to Ronnie Woods or Keith Richards.
Kerry was keen to find out the verdict as she said: “I’m quite excited just to see what you’ve learned.”
Philip admitted that it hasn’t been an easy task to track down the famous faces as they are on tour but he confirmed that he managed to get in contact with the representatives of Keith and Ronnie.
It wasn’t looking good as he revealed: “In the case of Keith, we asked him if he had any recollection of your guitar and I’m afraid the answer is he doesn’t. He just simply can’t remember any relocation of it.”
Moving onto Ronnie, Philip read a letter he received from his manager: “Having spoken to Ronnie while on tour, I’ve shown him pictures of the instrument and I’m afraid he had no memory of this guitar.
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“Lot of different musicians visited The Wick when Ronnie lived there. It was an incredibly busy time with him creating the first recording studio at the house where David Bowie, Mick Jagger and he created It's Only Rock 'n' Roll."
The end of the letter read: “Some people left instruments so it could have belonged to a visitor and with no photo of him and the guitar together, we can’t say that it was his.”
Turning to the women, Philip said: “I’m really sorry.” Devastated by the news, Kerry said: “That’s a shame.”
Niki continued: “We always knew it would be a possibility, didn’t we?” Philip pointed out that it could potentially belong to other famous music star as he added: “I don’t think this story is over yet.”
Fake Or Fortune is on BBC One and BBC iPlayer
