The BBC reports that “The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords has sold for £330,000 ($616,000) at an auction at London’s Abbey Road Studios. The instrument, which fetched more than three times its estimate, was sold by Sir Paul’s school friend Ian James, who will use the money for his retirement. The [...]

This week’s  Sunday TIMES includes an excellent article profiling John Collins, the man behined the upcoming auction of Paul McCartney’s first guitar. The article talks about Collin’s own colorful background, how he came to be in teh rock ‘n’ roll memorabilla business and his feelings at being in possesion (albeit briefly) of items such as [...]

The BBC reports that Paul McCartney’s first guitar is going up for sale later this month. The Rex acoustic guitar is expected to fetch more than £100,000 at Cooper Owen’s Music Legends auction at Abbey Road Studios in London on 28 July. Sir Paul learned his first chords on the instrument, which was owned by his [...]

According to a post at “What Goes On” a rare opportunity to acquire the ultimate trophy among dedicated Beatles fans has surfaced, nestling in the heart of Crouch End, England. The 1950s three-bedroom house where artwork for The Beatles’ famous White Album was created is now on the market for the first time in 25 [...]

 The concert poster shown above is one of only three known surviving examples from the Beatles first US tour in 1964. The concert at the Philadelphia Convention Hall was the only one of the 25 stops on the debut tour to have a specific promotional poster. Apart from it’s historic importance the poster is striking [...]

A long-lost cinefilm of the Beatles that was uncovered in November last year has fetched just under $2,200 at auction. Amateur photographer David Poole, 67, had filmed the Fab Four as they arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport in the 1960s. Forty years later, he re-discovered the film, which was somewhat faded, and decided to sell it [...]

WHEN a junior reporter on the East Anglian Daily Times attended a press conference before The Beatles played a show in Ipswich, UK back in 1964 the clued-up writer got the Fab Four to sign a copy of one of their best-known albums. Now, 42 years on, the autographed copy of A Hard Day’s Night is [...]

Bloomberg reports that a letter written by John Lennon to a journalist who accused the Beatles of exploiting black American music is expected to raise as much as 15,000 pounds ($28,450) at a London auction on May 24, according to a spokesperson for the auction house Bonhams.

John Lennon’s favorite table from New York’s Cafe La Fortuna has been placed up for auction by the cafe’s owners. Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono usually sat at the same table but it was “retired” after the singer was murdered in 1980. The minimum bid is $50,000 and the auction can be found here.

Bloomberg,com reports that John Lennon’s schoolbook, entitled “My Anthology,” fetched 126,500 pounds ($226,150) at a London sale of rock memorabilia last night. Auction house Cooper Owen Plc had set a minimum price of 100,000 pounds for the 12-year- old’s scribbles and drawings. “It is fitting that one of the earliest items from Britain’s greatest songwriter [...]