JOHN LENNON's GUITAR UP FOR AUCTION AFTER DISCOVERY IN ATTIC AFTER 50 YEARS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julien’s Auctions announced Tuesday, April 23 that Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar, which he played on classics like “Help!,” “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” “It’s Only Love,” “I’ve Just Seen a Face” and “Norwegian Wood,” will be up for auction during a two-day event in New York City next month.

John Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar and case

 

 

A release dubbed the instrument the “most important Beatles guitar to ever come to market,” and noted that it’s expected to go for more than $800,000, and will likely set a new world record for highest-selling Beatles guitar.

“The discovery of John Lennon’s Help! guitar that was believed to be lost is considered the greatest find of a Beatles guitar since Paul McCartney’s lost 1961 Höfner bass guitar,” Darren Julien, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Julien’s Auctions, said in a statement. “Finding this remarkable instrument is like finding a lost Rembrandt or Picasso, and it still looks and plays like a dream after having been preserved in an attic for more than 50 years. To awaken this sleeping beauty is a sacred honor and is a great moment for Music, Julien’s, Beatles and Auction history.” 

The guitar was famously played by Lennon in the movie Help! in the scene where the Beatles perform “You've Got to Hide Your Love Away” and more.

Its location became unknown in the later half of the 1960s after it made its way to Gordon Waller of the British duo Peter and Gordon, and he later gave it to his road managers.

“It was recently discovered in an attic in the rural British countryside where it had lain forgotten and unplayed for over 50 years,” the release said. “The homeowners found the guitar in the midst of their move and contacted Julien’s Auctions.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Harrison plays John Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar

 

While at the house, executives from Julien’s also found the guitar’s original case in the trash and rescued it. The Maton case was made in Australia and can be seen in photos of the Beatles taken in 1965. 

The instrument will headline the Music Icons two-day auction event on May 29 and 30 at the Hard Rock Café in New York City and online at juliensaucstions.com. The auction house has previously broken records with Beatles memorabilia sales, including another acoustic guitar of Lennon’s that sold for a record $2.4 million.

 

 

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JOHN LENNON’s HEADPHONES UP FOR AUCTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Beatles office boy Murray Macauley, from Tunbridge Wells, who worked at the Apple recording studios in the 1970s puts John Lennon’s headphones up for auction.
John Lennon's favourite headphones which he wore to record The Beatles' album Let It Be are set to fetch £3,000 at auction.

The broken headset was given to the band’s former office boy.Murray kept the Austrian-made AKG K60 headphones along with other memorabilia he collected during his time working for the Fab Four.

They include a legal document retrieved from a bin relating to the band splitting up in 1974.

Murray, 71, is now selling the precious items which he has kept under his bed for half a century.

The headphones are expected to sell for over $3,000 but could fetch far more when they go under the hammer at Hansons Richmond auctioneers.

Murray, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said: “In 1971 I got to know Nigel Oliver (tape operator) and George ‘Porky’ Peckham (record engineer) from Apple’s recording studios.

“George gave me a pair of broken AKG K60 headphones destined for the bin.

“They came from the period when The Beatles were recording Let it Be, their swansong album, at the Apple studios in 1969.

“The original standard grey jack lead has been replaced with longer white cabling for studio use.

“With John's obvious liking of this AKG K60 model of headphones, as demonstrated by the number of images he is seen wearing them, it's likely my headphones were used in the recording sessions The Beatles did in Apple studios between January 22-29, 1969 prior to their rooftop concert at the building.”

Murray got his dream job with the band in November 1970 when he was just 18 years old.

He recalled: “I worked with Bobby Irwin (Van Morrison session drummer), Joe Partridge (Kiki Dee band) and Elton John’s nephew, Paul, among others.
“We looked after individual Beatles’ requirements, whatever that entailed.
“Shopping for Ringo was almost a weekly event. I’d take a taxi to Harrods to collect his groceries.
“We would then drive to Ringo’s house and I would take the box in for Maureen, his wife. She was very nice as were the children.
“I sometimes saw Ringo, George, John and Yoko at the office. Paul was already estranged due to all the legal stuff going on with The Beatles’ separation.

 

 

“My first Apple Christmas party in December 1970 was amazing. I was placed on a table for three with George Harrison. “I asked him if the Beatles would ever get back together and he said ‘No way’. He was happy doing his own stuff. Such a nice guy. “Errands included taking a cheque from George to the Radha-Krishna movement’s London temple. 

“I also delivered a cheque from John Lennon to OZ magazine to help towards legal costs in their 1971 obscenity trial. “One day I was asked to clear out Boston Place where Apple Electronics had a small studio/store. “Everything had to be binned. I found a copy of Mal Evans’ (Beatles friend, roadie and PA) handwritten ‘Bathroom Window’ lyrics from the Beatles’ Abbey Road recording sessions.

“Also in the so-called rubbish was a Bob Dylan Highway 61 songbook with notations (chord letters) written by Paul McCartney in red ink. “These seemed amazing to me and, as they were destined for the bin, I kept them.

“Ringo had an office at Apple HQ and I was delivering some cigarettes and a bottle of whisky to him one afternoon when he sat me down and played his new single, Back of Boogaloo. “He strummed along on acoustic guitar. He asked me, the office boy, what I thought. I told him it was great.

“Other duties included buying George’s guitar strings, his jeans (Levi, orange tab) and Pattie Harrison’s tights from Miss Selfridge, which was a bit embarrassing.

“One day I had to take legal papers to John Lennon and he said, “Who the f**k are you?” I explained I was from Apple HQ and everything calmed down. Steve Brendell, John’s PA, showed me round the studio. John had just finished recording Imagine. “I was totally blown away. His collection of guitars looked so impressive on the studio walls. “Another room, painted in white, housed John’s white grand piano.
“I also saw the Sgt Peppers outfits and umpteen leather jackets from his early Beatles days.”

Murray’s memorabilia includes a legal relating to dissolving the band’s partnership.

In 1970 Paul McCartney sued Apple Corps Ltd as he felt his financial interests were not protected and the band split in 1974.

The Beatles’ memorabilia will be auctioned on April 27 at Hansons Richmond in London.
 

 

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RINGO STARR TO PLAY AT NEW LENOX COMMONS

 

Ringo is set to thrill fans in New Lenox, as the next act in the New Lenox Summer Concert Series.
Ringo Starr,will take the stage at the New Lenox Commons on Saturday, Sept. 14.

 

If tickets remain, sales will open to non-New Lenox residents on May 13, Mayor Tim Baldermann said. 

"We’re limited, it’s 5,000 tickets," Baldermann said. "When they’re gone, they’re gone."

Ringo Starr marks the second act in the Village's Summer Concert Series, formerly known as Triple Play. Smokey Robinson opens the series on June 1. He recently released a single “February Sky,” a new on Friday, April 12 from his upcoming EP Crooked Boy.

Starr has released 20 solo studio albums and 4 consecutive EPs. He formed his first All Starr Band in 1989 and has been touring since. Ringo has received nine GRAMMY Awards, and has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — first as a Beatle and then as solo artist.

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