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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.
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A mink coat in 1975 (it was the done thing then). It cost me £5,500.
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My piano, a boudoir grand. I’ve played since I was six.
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I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
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Heady, dizzying, magical. Time stops.
Scarlet fever, 1962. Hypothermia, 1974. Lightning strike, 1986.
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