George Michael takes Lennon’s piano on tour

The British singer George Michael, formerly of Wham!, has bought the piano used by John Lennon to compose his 1971 hit Imagine. And he has big plans for the instrument. "I'm going to attempt to give it to 12 people who I think are the best writers in the world for a month each and have them write a piece on it,” he told the Boston Herald. "Who knows whether they’ll write it on that piano, but they’ve got a month to have the piano in their house — that’s the idea."

Michael, who has already written his own song on it called Patience, says of the instrument. "It’s a funny-looking thing — it’s the cheapest-looking piano you’ve ever seen. I wasn’t expecting the big white one — I knew it wasn’t the big white one - but I didn’t expect something you’d get in a very, very underfunded school."