And Finally

Lennon lyrical scrawl goes for over a million

By | Published on Monday 21 June 2010

I like ‘A Day In The Life’. I’d go as far as to say it’s one of my favourite Beatles songs. But I wouldn’t pay $1.2 million for Lennon’s original scrawlings of the lyrics (his bits, presumably, Macca wrote the “woke up, fell out of bed” verse I think), not least because the song achieves its classic status as much for its crazy orchestrations as its words.

But that didn’t stop some rich nutter writing a cheque that big for Lennon’s lyrical notation at an auction in New York last week. The piece of paper, which reportedly had a messy version of the lyrics on one side and a neater re-writing of them on the other, both written by Lennon, was sold to an anonymous American collector. The final price was well above expectations.



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