Rock's Big-Money Collectors.

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WHO Microsoft co-founder; billionaire

COLLECTION Allen paid millions to stock the Experience Music Project with more than 80,000 rock artifacts, including Eric Clapton's "Brownie" guitar (played on Layla), Bob Dylan's Martin guitar from his early days in New York and thousands of key rock posters.

WHO POSSESSION The Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock

WHO Investor: heir to a footwear fortune

COLLECTION Top Who collector Swartz owns nine Pete Townshend guitars and nine John Entwistle bass guitars. His collection also includes gold records, clothing and posters.

PRIZE POSSESSION Half of the drum kit Keith Moon played at woodstock

WHO Voice-over artist for ABC television

COLLECTION Geller's Beatles collection is worth more than $2 million: It includes signed copies of Abbey Road and Meet the Beatles!, the earliest Capitol Records Beatles poster (with the slogan "The Beatles Are Coming") and a Vox guitar played by both Lennon and George Harrison.

PRIZE POSSESSION A chunk of wall from the Ed Sullivan Theater signed by the four Beatles

WHO Memorabilia dealer; married to the daughter of a late real-estate magnate

COLLECTION Kosinski has one of the world's biggest Bruce Springsteen collections, from the leather pickguard that once covered Springsteen's famous Fender Esquire guitar to items as obscure as old datebooks and report cards, He also owns guitars from Clapton. John Lennon, Townshend and Kiss.

PRIZE POSSESSION Lennon's necklace

WHO Former executive vice president of Warner Bros. Records turned memorabilia dealer

COLLECTION Gold, who frequently loans parts of his collection to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, owns instruments from Kurt Cobain, Howlin' Wolf and John Coltrane; Beatles acetates that he says Include unheard alternate versions of songs: and original lyrics from the Sex Pistols.

PRIZE POSSESSION Part of Hendrix's record collection (complete with Hendrix's psychedelic doodles on a Dylan album cover)

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