“Beatles lyrics giving nod to Blackburn fetch £800K” plus 3

---

• Beatles lyrics giving nod to Blackburn fetch £800K
• Beatles manuscript nabs 1.2 million dollars at auction
• Beatles manuscript nabs 1.2 million dollars at auction
• Beatles manuscript nabs $1.2M at auction

Beatles lyrics giving nod to Blackburn fetch £800K Posted: 19 Jun 2010 04:22 AM PDT Beatles lyrics giving nod to Blackburn fetch £800K 12:09pm Saturday 19th June 2010 Print Email Share Comments(4) HANDWRITTEN Beatles lyrics which namecheck Blackburn were yesterday sold at auction for more than £800,000. A private American collector paid £810,000 for John Lennon's original words to A Day in the Life after bidding by phone at the Sotheby's sale in New York. Experts had expected the lyrics to fetch only about £472,000. The lyrics for the song famously contain the line '4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire'. Lennon, who wrote the bulk of the song with contributions from Paul McCartney, was inspired to pen the line after reading a Daily Mail report about the state of the roads in the East Lancashire town. It made Blackburn famous to millions of Beatles fans worldwide and also inspired the Blackburn Rovers fanzine 4,000 Holes. Yesterday's auction featured a double-sided sheet of paper with Lennon's edits and corrections to the words. It is written in black felt marker and blue ball-point pen with other annotation in red ink. A Day in the Life, the closing track on the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, is considered by many experts to be the Beatles' finest song. In its day it was controversial, even being banned by the BBC for a number of years for its allegedly drug-inspired lyrics. US magazine Rolling Stone listed it at number 26 in its compilation of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Print Email Share Comments(4) Your Say YourTelegraph A Darener, Darwen says... 1:15pm Sat 19 Jun 10 '4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire'. It needs to be rewritten........... ..at least 10,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire ossy, Oswaldtwistle says... 1:44pm Sat 19 Jun 10 Someone has more money than sense!!!!!!! Allan Whitehead, Newbold says... 1:56pm Sat 19 Jun 10 ossy, I completely agree with you. It will be a savings on their Tax. onlyonesimongarner, ewood says... 3:23pm Sat 19 Jun 10 [quote][p][bold]A Darener[/bold] wrote: '4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire'. It needs to be rewritten........... ..at least 10,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire[/p][/quote]40,000 Poles in Blackburn Lancashire, would be nearer the mark Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Beatles manuscript nabs 1.2 million dollars at auction Posted: 18 Jun 2010 10:28 AM PDT NEW YORK (AFP) – The original handwritten lyrics for the hit Beatles song "A Day in the Life" was sold at a Sotheby's auction Friday for 1.2 million dollars. Bidding for the manuscript shot past expectations to reach 1,202,500 dollars. Sotheby's had expected a final price of between 500,000 and 700,000 dollars. The single sheet of paper has lyrics on both sides, in John Lennon's handwriting. The song was the final cut on the band's eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," released in 1967. According to experts, the manuscript shows how Lennon and Paul McCartney composed their famous music. The song, considered a turning point in the Beatles evolution from pop to more artistic music, was censured by the BBC when it was released because some believed it alluded to drug use. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Beatles manuscript nabs 1.2 million dollars at auction Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:42 AM PDT The original handwritten lyrics for the hit Beatles song "A Day in the Life" was sold at a Sotheby's auction Friday for 1.2 million dollars. Bidding for the manuscript shot past expectations to reach 1,202,500 dollars. Sotheby's had expected a final price of between 500,000 and 700,000 dollars. The single sheet of paper has lyrics on both sides, in John Lennon's handwriting. The song was the final cut on the band's eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," released in 1967. According to experts, the manuscript shows how Lennon and Paul McCartney composed their famous music. The song, considered a turning point in the Beatles evolution from pop to more artistic music, was censured by the BBC when it was released because some believed it alluded to drug use. AFP Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Beatles manuscript nabs $1.2M at auction Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:55 PM PDT NEW YORK—The original handwritten lyrics for the hit Beatles song "A Day in the Life" was sold at a Sotheby's auction Friday for $1.2 million. Bidding for the manuscript shot past expectations to reach $1,202,500. Sotheby's had expected a final price of between $500,000 and $700,000. The single sheet of paper has lyrics on both sides, in John Lennon's handwriting. The song was the final cut on the band's eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," released in 1967. According to experts, the manuscript shows how Lennon and Paul McCartney composed their famous music. The song, considered a turning point in the Beatles evolution from pop to more artistic music, was censured by the BBC when it was released because some believed it alluded to drug use. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News Search Results for beatles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610