A couple of home sales of note on the property front.
Don Imus sold his mansion for $14.4 million. (See Photos here) According to Tom Taylor's column today, "Imus loved to drive his expensive car around the area and show that a brash radio DJ could make that kind of cash."
Am I the only one who thinks that sounds pathetically insecure?
Also, the home where George Harrison wrote "Blue Jay Way" sold a few weeks ago in Los Angeles. I never heard the origin of this song before. According to the posting of the song on YouTube: The name of the song comes from a street, located high in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Sunset Boulevard, which affords panoramic views of Hollywood and much of the Los Angeles Basin. It is reached from downtown Los Angeles via a complicated street route, which is all the harder to navigate on a foggy night — thus creating the backdrop for the opening lines of the song: "There's a fog upon L.A. / And my friends have lost their way"
According to Harrison: "Derek Taylor got held up. He rang to say he'd be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in Blue Jay Way. And he said he could find it OK... he could always ask a cop. So I waited and waited. I felt really knackered with the flight, but I didn't want to go to sleep until he came. There was a fog and it got later and later. To keep myself awake, just as a joke to pass the time while I waited, I wrote a song about waiting for him in Blue Jay Way. There was a little Hammond organ in the corner of this house which I hadn't noticed until then... so I messed around on it and the song came.
