News-Antique.com reports that a guitar with the signatures of all four Beatles is to be the last minute addition to an Arizona auction on April 1st. Dave Wakefield Sr., an avid Beatles fan from Virginia, worked for Baltimore City in the 70s and 80s. During that time period, a close friend of his, a police [...]
According to this report from the BBC, A ship’s log book written by John Lennon during a stormy trip to Bermuda in 1980 is expected to make up to £25,000 at a London sale next month. The log contains an account of the former Beatle screaming against the tempest and singing old Liverpool shanty songs [...]
Doug Norwine, Director of Entertainment Memorabilia Auctions for Heritage Auction Galleries said in a recent Press Release that “Beatles memorabilia has always led the pack in terms of desirability. Their fans are absolutely insatiable in their demand for new material.” Heritage will offer two unique pieces for Beatles collectors at their upcoming auction. Â A set [...]
The document pictured above is claimed to be the original application to register the name “The Beatles” as a trademark and was recently offered on eBay. Ownership of the document doesn’t give you any rights to the name or trademark, but, if genuine, is a unique piece of Beatles memorabilia. The starting price of $9,500.00 obviously was too much for [...]
A Red Cross charity shop in Swansea, Wales was the location of a surprising find, when amongst a collection of bric-a-brac a cloak room ticket was discosverd with what appears to be a genuine John Lennon signature. The signature has been verified by several authorities as genuine and will be auctioned off to raise funds for [...]
In 1966 Capitol Records in the US decided to pull together an album of various Beatles tracks under the title of Yesterday and Today. Once the advance copies of the album reached radio stations and journalists it became an immediate sensation, but not for the music. The cover was an image of The fab Four [...]
The San Francisco office of auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields is currently displaying the original hand-written lyrics for the Beatles classic “A Day In The Life.” Originally penned by John Lennon on January 17th, 1967 with a black felt market pen on a scarp of paper, it was later revised and added to by Paul McCartney [...]
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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.
