According to this article in Design Week, the iconic bubble writing that adorns the front of The Beatles’ 1965 Rubber Soul album is about to go on sale at Bonham’s, valued at £10 000. The trademark stretchy font, which has been credited with launching a swarm of imitations, was created in 1965 by Charles Front, [...]
George Harrison’s hand written lyrics for his classic song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” sold at auction on Monday for $300,000. The lyrics are the earliest known version of the song and contains several lines which were not included on the final recorded version as heard on the 1968 “White Album.”
The personal copy of Meet The Beatles owned by George’s sister Louise and signed to her by all four Beatles (above)Â recently sold at auction for $115,228.
According to the News-Antique website The BEATLES 1964 Detroit Concert Film with Copyright will be sold Dec. 16 in the ItsOnlyRockNRoll.com Catalog Auction along with other rare Beatles collectibles, autographs and other memorabilia. Full details of the film and its history can be found here.
According to a report on ABC.com the bass guitar that had been described as once belonging to Paul McCartney and had been offered as part of Dick Clark’s auction of rock ‘n’ roll memorbilia may have been a fake. According to the report, sufficient doubt has been raised that the guitar has been withdrawn. It was [...]
According to a report in the UK’s Sunday Mirror, a rare signed Beatles album belonging to George Harrison’s sister is going under the hammer – and is expected to fetch more than £50,000.($98,000) Harrison’s only sister Louise is parting with her copy of Meet The Beatles, the first album they released in the US. Louise got it [...]
According to a report on the UNCUT website, A guitar played by George Harrison at the height of his Beatles career sold yesterday at a music auction for a massive £115, 000. ($226,000) Harrison played his Maston MS-500 Mastersound guitar in 1963, just as Beatle-mania was starting.
According to a report in the Sheffield Today newspaper a pub menu signed by John, Paul, George and Ringo during an unannounced visit to the town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire in during 1963 just sold at auction for just over $5,800. The Fab Four stopped off at the The Normanton Inn, Clumber Park on December 1st 1963, [...]
Cooper Owen Online reports that their next Music Legends auction will take place at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in London on the 30th November 2006. Â Â Among the items up for auction are: Two very different pieces of clothing from John Lennon’s wardrobe, encapsulating the incredible development and change the Beatles went through [...]
According to various reports Paul McCartney’s original hand written lyrics for “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” are to be included in an upcoming auction of rock memorabilia in New York and are expected to fetch between $200,000 and $300,000.
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
