Jagger-Lennon record for sale

London — A 30-year-old blues recording by Mick Jagger and John Lennon is going on the auction block, its owner says.

London record dealer Tom Fisher doesn’t want to speculate on the value of “Too Many Cooks,” with Rolling Stones front man Jagger on vocals and ex-Beatle Lennon on guitar, but describes the track as “very collectible and very rare.”

“I am hoping there is going to be a lot of interest in it, and I certainly expect to do a little better than the 20 pounds ($32) I paid for it.”

Fisher bought the recording four years ago from a man claiming to be a friend of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood. He recognized Jagger’s voice immediately but didn’t know the guitar player was Lennon until Jagger verified the recording’s authenticity for the auctioneer.

The rockers apparently recorded the track sometime in 1973 and 1974 when Lennon was separated from wife Yoko Ono — Lennon’s so-called “Lost Weekend” period.

Deconstructing Michael

Los Angeles — The face of pop singer Michael Jackson will be the subject of a special edition of NBC’s news magazine “Dateline” next month.

“Michael Jackson Unmasked,” set to air at 9 p.m. CST Feb. 17, will be “the inside story as told by some of the people who knew him best,” according to a network statement. Further details about the program weren’t given.

For years, Jackson’s appearance — particularly his increasingly smaller nose and lighter skin tone — has been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation.

Better late than never

Carson City, Nev. — Folk singer Tom Paxton is delighted with his first Grammy award nomination, even if he had to wait through four decades of performing and more than a dozen albums.

“Isn’t that something? Do you think that waiting until I’m 65 is cutting it a little fine?” he asked. “I’m absolutely thrilled, and I was genuinely surprised.”

Paxton was nominated in the children’s album category for “Your Shoes, My Shoes,” produced by longtime friends Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. They are competing in the same category with their “Pocket Full of Stardust.”

The Grammy awards, in 104 categories, will be handed out Feb. 23.

J. Lo says they have to go

London — Ben Affleck has wooed and won a bevy of show-biz beauties — and many have shared the delights of the impressive bed in his Hollywood bachelor pad. But when his new fiancee, Jennifer Lopez, set eyes on the actor’s “pleasure pit snoozer,” she took one look at it and gave him an ultimatum, reports ThisIsLondon.com.

“Either that bed goes or I do,” Lopez declared.

Since Affleck is said to be crazy about the 32-year-old megastar, it was no contest — the bed was thrown out.

Matt Damon is convinced his 30-year-old friend has become “totally bewitched” by Lopez. “She rules his life,” he said.

It’s rumored that Damon prevented Affleck from having a huge ‘I love Jennifer’ tattoo inked on his arm.

Lopez is on record as telling Damon to “butt out” of her life and leave them alone.