[ti:John Lennon Collectibles to Go on Sale in Denmark] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]A rare audio recording of famed artist [00:04.00]and peace activist John Lennon [00:07.40]is to go on sale in Denmark on Tuesday. [00:12.80]The recording has been privately held for fifty years, [00:17.56]by the people who made it. [00:20.84]Like many collectibles, this one has an interesting history. [00:27.24]In 1970, four Danish teenagers got to meet privately [00:33.60]with British musician and Beatles member John Lennon. [00:39.40]They planned to write a story about him [00:42.68]for publication in their school's magazine. [00:46.44]The boys made a sound recording of the event. [00:51.84]Now, 50 years later, the Danes are putting [00:56.24]the 33-minute-long recording up for sale. [01:01.48]Included with it are 23 pictures taken by the students [01:06.48]and a copy of the magazine in which the story appeared. [01:12.28]Bidding for the set is to open September 28 [01:16.60]at the Danish auction business Bruun Rasmussen. [01:21.92]The 16-year-olds were not star-struck [01:24.96]when they questioned Lennon that January day [01:28.56]in the area of Thy. [01:31.80]It was the height of the Vietnam War and the Cold War. [01:37.32]Lennon and his wife, artist Yoko Ono, [01:40.88]were opponents of both conflicts. [01:45.20]Karsten Hoejen remembers the two had "a message of peace, [01:50.84]and that was what was important to us." [01:55.68]He recorded the meeting with equipment he borrowed [01:58.96]from the local record store. [02:01.96]Lennon and Ono talked with the boys about [02:05.48]being in Denmark and world peace, Hoejen said. [02:11.16]Communities sympathetic to Lennon's message [02:14.52]had spread quickly around Denmark [02:17.12]beginning in the late 1960s. [02:21.32]People came from other countries, [02:23.88]and music festivals were organized. [02:27.92]"Their ... message was what we came for," [02:30.36]Hoejen told The Associated Press. [02:33.08]The gathering was friendly and easy. [02:37.92]"Lennon and Ono had their feet on the table," Hoejen noted. [02:44.00]Lennon and Ono were on a private visit to Thy at the time, [02:49.72]and they tried to keep it that way. [02:52.72]But, the local press found out [02:55.76]and reported about the presence of the world-famous couple. [03:01.24]A press conference was set up [03:03.36]and the 16-year-old students were to attend. [03:08.52]But, they arrived late. [03:11.04]The official press conference was over. [03:15.40]The boys had missed it. [03:18.68]Instead, they got something better. [03:22.40]"We knocked on the door" Hoejen recalled. [03:26.44]Seconds later they were sitting next to Lennon and Ono. [03:31.68]Hoejen held the microphone, [03:33.76]and his friend Jesper Jungersen took pictures. [03:38.88]Someone asked Lennon to play the guitar for the boys. [03:42.68]He played and with Ono sang his song Give Peace a Chance. [03:49.92]Then the couple sang a song called Peace Radio. [03:53.80]It was made for a radio station in The Netherlands [03:58.20]but was never broadcast, Hoejen said. [04:02.16]That unpublished song [04:04.36]makes the collection of objects more valuable. [04:08.60]The collection is estimated to be worth more than $30,000. [04:15.56]The four boys grew up, and over time, [04:19.48]realized that they "were sitting on a treasure," Hoejen told AP. [04:26.08]After some discussion, they secured the recording in a bank safe. [04:31.96]"A collector or a museum would likely get more of it [04:36.12]than us having it in a bank, so we decided to sell it." [04:42.56]I'm Caty Weaver. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM