The Liverpool Echo recently ran a report on two finds dating back to the teenage years of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Â Starting today (June 20th) a small clear piece of plastic goes on display at “Mendips” the childhood home of John Lennon, now operated by The National Trust for historic buildings. Â The [...]
Forty years after The Beatles whipped Canadian fans into a frenzy for the last time at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens, Beatlemania is set to hit the city all over again. The Toronto Beatles Celebration, the city’s first-ever downtown Fab Four convention, will be held September 16 and 17, organizers announced recently. The Beatles performed at [...]
 The UK’s Express and Star Midlands Life website recently reported a startling find at the Gaumont Cinema in Snow Hill, Wolverhampton. It appears that the venue’s manager Joe Alexander maintained a “guest book” which was signed by every act to play the venue from 1958 onwards. Included alongside the signatures ranging from Buddy Holly to [...]
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 1964Â 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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.
