{"id":240831,"date":"2026-01-19T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:51:22","slug":"elvis-presleys-personal-barber-sold-a-lock-of-the-kings-hair-for-record-amount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240831\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley’s personal barber sold a lock of The King’s hair for record amount"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Elvis fan paid a massive $115,120 (\u00a372,791, including buyer’s premium) for the hair.<\/p>\n

It measured around 3 in (8 cm) in diameter and was accompanied by letters of authenticity from\u00a0the star’s friend Tom Morgan Jr., Elvis memorabilia expert John W. Heath, and John Reznikoff of University Archives, a respected authority in the field of hair collecting.<\/p>\n

Before Elvis\u2019s famous locks were sold, the record belonged to a lock of hair from Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (1758\u20131805) that sold at auction in Crewkerne, Somerset in 1988.<\/p>\n

It was bought by a bookseller, who paid \u00a35,575 ($9,799) for it.<\/p>\n

Elvis\u2019s hair wasn\u2019t the only thing to make him a record breaker.<\/p>\n

\"Elvis<\/p>\n

Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

In 1961, Elvis was the first person to top the UK singles and albums charts simultaneously (male) when his single \u201cAre You Lonesome Tonight?\u201d rose to No.1 at the same time as his soundtrack album G.I. Blues was at the top of the albums chart.<\/p>\n

Decades after his death in 1977, Elvis became the first musical artist inducted into three different Halls of Fame.<\/p>\n

It was in 2001 that he was inducted into the Gospel Music Association\u2019s Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He was already an inductee of the Country Music Association\u2019s Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock\u00a0& Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

To this day, Elvis holds the record for most No.1 singles (UK) with a total of 21, including \u201cAll Shook Up\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Now or Never\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Elvis fan paid a massive $115,120 (\u00a372,791, including buyer’s premium) for the hair. It measured around 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[141704,9307,156,54286,141703,157,111,139,69,77189,141705],"class_list":["post-240831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-elvis-hair","tag-elvis-presley","tag-entertainment","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-most-expensive-hair-sold-at-auction-online","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-king","tag-was-elvis-famous-for-his-hair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}