Christine’s London Penthouse Hits the Market - Page 2

BigAl84 · #16 03-07-2025, 10:07 AM

You gotta hand it to Chris, John, and Lindsey. They went very long periods of time where they were not touring or releasing material and still managed to be smart with their money, living very lucratively for their entire lives.

Penguin Emeritus · #17 03-07-2025, 01:09 PM

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You gotta hand it to Chris, John, and Lindsey. They went very long periods of time where they were not touring or releasing material and still managed to be smart with their money, living very lucratively for their entire lives.

Thats true. Chris and LB must have made good $$ in royalties though, the checks were probablyfairly constant. I guess John only got those from the chain? But he has always been super frugal. I'd never worry about him and money.

--Lis

HomerMcvie · #18 03-07-2025, 01:47 PM

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Thats true. Chris and LB must have made good $$ in royalties though, the checks were probablyfairly constant. I guess John only got those from the chain? But he has always been super frugal. I'd never worry about him and money.

--Lis

I believe they got royalties just from being ON the recording, too. And I'd assume John and Mick still got paid for being Seedy Management, at least up until they fired Mick.

bombaysaffires · #19 03-07-2025, 01:47 PM

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Just curious, do you have the wardrobe case displayed in your living room, or what?

I suppose when I still had my big house, that I'd have put it in the corner of my music room or something. Do you have your things in it, or is it just empty? Sorry, just curious...

I did have it in my house, in the family room where I had my piano and an original Wild Heart promotional poster that I forgot about and found 40 years later clearing out my parents' house. It has some dings around the edges but it framed up really nicely. Currently we are doing some renovations so Christine (as we call it) is in the garage until the work is done.

When opened it has one side with a clothes bar for hanging stuff and other side has a series of drawers with labels on them like "makeup" "jewelry" "shoes" "underwear" etc... I had thought I'd put her in a guest room and have it opened up so guests could hang a couple things in it while staying, but I could never bring myself to just clean it out and sanitize it. There are little bits of things like sequins that fell off stage clothes, an old hotel room key, the tag out of something made of cashmere, etc that I thought I would clear out and make it more utilitarian to justify the cost. But I've so far never been able to remove those traces. So I've kind of come to realize that it's actually more of an artifact to just display more than "use", like a piece of history, or a piece of art that you just enjoy for what it is

HomerMcvie · #20 03-07-2025, 01:50 PM

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Thats true. Chris and LB must have made good $$ in royalties though, the checks were probablyfairly constant. I guess John only got those from the chain? But he has always been super frugal. I'd never worry about him and money.

--Lis

I believe they got royalties just from being ON the recording, too. And I'd assume John and Mick still got paid for being Seedy Management, at least up until they fired Mick.

SOMEWHERE I have a response from Bob Welch, saved to a computer, explaining royalties and how they work. Mechanical royalties, etc. I still can't say that I understood it all, but he wrote a rather lengthy response to me.

Penguin Emeritus · #21 03-07-2025, 07:10 PM

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I believe they got royalties just from being ON the recording, too. And I'd assume John and Mick still got paid for being Seedy Management, at least up until they fired Mick.

SOMEWHERE I have a response from Bob Welch, saved to a computer, explaining royalties and how they work. Mechanical royalties, etc. I still can't say that I understood it all, but he wrote a rather lengthy response to me.

it's prob way more complicated than i imagine. i'm sure bob knew the details!! but i think the seedy management thing was defunct by like 1980, wasn't it? so that didn't last too long lol

--Lis

Nathan · #22 03-07-2025, 07:56 PM

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I did have it in my house, in the family room where I had my piano and an original Wild Heart promotional poster that I forgot about and found 40 years later clearing out my parents' house. It has some dings around the edges but it framed up really nicely. Currently we are doing some renovations so Christine (as we call it) is in the garage until the work is done.

When opened it has one side with a clothes bar for hanging stuff and other side has a series of drawers with labels on them like "makeup" "jewelry" "shoes" "underwear" etc... I had thought I'd put her in a guest room and have it opened up so guests could hang a couple things in it while staying, but I could never bring myself to just clean it out and sanitize it. There are little bits of things like sequins that fell off stage clothes, an old hotel room key, the tag out of something made of cashmere, etc that I thought I would clear out and make it more utilitarian to justify the cost. But I've so far never been able to remove those traces. So I've kind of come to realize that it's actually more of an artifact to just display more than "use", like a piece of history, or a piece of art that you just enjoy for what it is

Wow, so cool. Nice idea to have it in a guest room, but I agree, I'd want to keep those things in tact.

HomerMcvie · #23 03-07-2025, 08:16 PM

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I did have it in my house, in the family room where I had my piano and an original Wild Heart promotional poster that I forgot about and found 40 years later clearing out my parents' house. It has some dings around the edges but it framed up really nicely. Currently we are doing some renovations so Christine (as we call it) is in the garage until the work is done.

When opened it has one side with a clothes bar for hanging stuff and other side has a series of drawers with labels on them like "makeup" "jewelry" "shoes" "underwear" etc... I had thought I'd put her in a guest room and have it opened up so guests could hang a couple things in it while staying, but I could never bring myself to just clean it out and sanitize it. There are little bits of things like sequins that fell off stage clothes, an old hotel room key, the tag out of something made of cashmere, etc that I thought I would clear out and make it more utilitarian to justify the cost. But I've so far never been able to remove those traces. So I've kind of come to realize that it's actually more of an artifact to just display more than "use", like a piece of history, or a piece of art that you just enjoy for what it is

It makes me sad that it's in the garage. I'd love to smell her perfume in it. ❤️

bombaysaffires · #24 03-08-2025, 04:23 PM

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It makes me sad that it's in the garage. I'd love to smell her perfume in it. ❤️

Nah, it's actually a really nice garage (no cars go in it so far). It was one of the things we did a big reno on last year to make it more of a workshop/hobby space. Right now the whole space (it's a two-car garage) is filled with her perfume. I think maybe because our weather has been warming up. It also has a dehumidifier where it is just because it was still rainy season, and some padding around it. (All better than how it would be stored in a warehouse with band equipment).

HomerMcvie · #25 03-08-2025, 07:59 PM

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Nah, it's actually a really nice garage (no cars go in it so far). It was one of the things we did a big reno on last year to make it more of a workshop/hobby space. Right now the whole space (it's a two-car garage) is filled with her perfume. I think maybe because our weather has been warming up. It also has a dehumidifier where it is just because it was still rainy season, and some padding around it. (All better than how it would be stored in a warehouse with band equipment).

Well, I'm happy that it has a good home, and is loved