The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
When I initially made money with the Corrs, I bought a Jaguar XK8.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
My children’s education.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
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