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Beatles management contract up for sale this month
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 7 September 2015
The Beatles’ management contract with Brian Epstein is set to be sold at auction by Sotherby’s in London later this month. Offered as part of a sale of music memorabilia on 29 Sep, it’s thought the document could fetch between £250,000 and £500,000.
The document is dated 1 Oct 1962, four days before the release of the band’s debut single, ‘Love Me Do’. It was actually the second contract the band had signed with their manager, but the first Epstein also added his signature to. The fathers of Paul McCartney and George Harrison also signed, as their sons were under the age of 21 at the time. This will be the latest in a string of sales of the contract in recent years.
Also among the items up for sale in the Sotherby’s auction are a signed copy of The Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’ album, a collection of Andy Warhol-designed album covers, a Fender Stratocaster formerly owned by Eric Clapton, and handwritten and signed lyrics for Tupac Shakur’s ‘Ambitionz Az A Ridah’.
If you’ve got your heart set on a Beatles contract but don’t have quite enough money saved for this one, the band’s first record contract is also up for sale this month. The 1961 deal to record a cover of traditional German children’s song ‘My Bonnie’ under the name Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers is expected to fetch around £98,500 at Heritage Auctions in New York on 19 Sep.
