Mick Jagger has never been hotter, and the recent Rolling Stones tour has put him once again among the rock’ n’ roll deities. Think about it, $6,000 for a lock of hair?? Who can spend this amount of money for a lock of hair even though it belongs to Jagger?
According to CBS News, an envelope containing the Rolling Stones frontman’s hair was bought by an anonymous buyer for the whopping sum of 4,000 pound ($6,000). The hair was put up for auction by Chrissie Shrimpton, one of Jagger’s former girlfriends, who obviously had something in mind when she saved the hair, put it in an envelope marked with the notation: ‘Mick Jagger’s hair after being washed + trimmed by Chris at Rose Hill Farm’,… you now know what you have to do if you sleep with a famous musician! But she is forgiven as the item was offered to raise money for a very good cause, the charity Changing Faces, a British organization giving support and information to people with disfigurements to the face, hands or body, and their families.
I just see two reasons why someone would buy Jagger’s hair:
– It could be a serious investment, hair can be preserved for a long time and the value can only increase, you just have to find another nuts who will buy it for a few more thousands!
– Or, and this is the crazy proposition suggested about everywhere, it could be used for cloning. The buyer is obviously a big fan and wants to have a baby Jagger… in this case, I have really bad news for him/her, cloning using hair? Not really possible, hair has DNA but it’s mostly made of dead cells and the DNA found would not be intact enough to be used for cloning. It would be a different story if the roots were attached but since it is a lock of hair, I am afraid your little Jurassic Park project is cut short. At the top of this, cloning is a very hard thing to do, many clones don’t survive or have defects and nobody would want to have a defective little Jagger! Too bad.
Anyway, I have another suggestion for the buyer, with all these babies that Jagger has probably made everywhere and not recognized, this lock of hair could be used for paternity tests, yes, DNA from hair is good at that! Just a suggestion.