JOHN LENNON's VELVET JACKET GOING UP FOR AUCTION IN LIVERPOOL

Auctioneers estimate the jacket could fetch between £500,000 and £700,000
 

A black velvet suit jacket once owned by John Lennon will go up for auction in Liverpool next month. The jacket was said to be a favourite of John's and he can be seen wearing it in the 1971 film 'Imagine'. 

John's friend and music producer Tony King bought the jacket for him from Take 6 in London at a time when John was under threat of deportation from America. After wearing the jacket throughout the early 1970s, John gifted it to Harry Nilsson's wife, Una, in 1974.

Una had reportedly taken a real shine to the jacket, and while they were all staying together at the Pierre Hotel in New York, John handed it to her. It still retains the star lapel badge - a souvenir from the Beatles' Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album, released in 1967.

In 1992, the jacket was gifted to a business colleague of Harry Nilsson's, and then displayed alongside John's famous army jacket in the Hard Rock Café. 

In 2000, it was offered at auction during the annual Beatles Convention to celebrate the opening of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. The current owner bought it at this event, and it has been on display at the Beatles Story in Liverpool for over 20 years.

Adam Partridge will be auctioning the jacket on December 5 in his Liverpool Saleroom on Jordan Street. Adam said: "This truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to offer an item owned and made famous by one of the most important figures of the 20th century.

"Having had an auction house in Liverpool for 15 years, it is an honour to be selling such an iconic piece in the city that created the ‘band that changed the world,’ and there is no more fitting place than Liverpool to see the jacket come to market. It carries an auction estimate of £500,000-£700,000."

The owner of the jacket will be donating proceeds to the Lennon Imagine Trust. The funds from the sale will be used by the Trust to continue John's legacy in Liverpool by supporting the trust's 'Music Education Experience'. This aims to introduce children to 'repurposed musical instruments through a play setting' in the hope of inspiring the next John Lennon.

The auction will be held on Thursday December 5, at Adam Partridge’s Liverpool Saleroom on Jordan Street, Liverpool, with the sale commencing at 2pm. The jacket will remain at the Beatles Story until the auction.

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OUT NOW! THE BEATLES: 1964 U.S. ALBUMS IN MONO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1964.
The year the British Invasion began.
The year Beatlemania exploded across America & around the world.
The year The Beatles smashed the U.S. Billboard charts.
The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono are out now.

Originally compiled for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists, seven Beatles albums have been analog cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mono master tapes by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. Out of print on vinyl since 1995, the seven mono albums are available now in a new eight-LP box set titled The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono, with six of the titles also available individually. 

All seven albums – Meet The Beatles!; The Beatles’ Second Album; A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track); Something New; The Beatles’ Story (2LP); Beatles ’65; and The Early Beatles – feature faithfully replicated artwork and new four-panel inserts with essays written by American Beatles historian and author Bruce Spizer. The albums’ new vinyl lacquers were cut by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. The box set collects the seven albums, and all except The Beatles Story are also available individually.

The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono

 

The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono (8LP 180g vinyl box set)

 

ORDER : H E R E .

[all albums except The Beatles’ Story also available individually]

Meet The Beatles!
[Capitol Records: released January 20, 1964; 11 weeks at No. 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Beatles’ Second Album

[Capitol Records: released April 10, 1964; five weeks at No. 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)
[United Artists: released June 26, 1964; 14 weeks at No. 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something New
[Capitol Records: released July 20, 1964; nine weeks at No. 2]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Beatles’ Story [2LP]
[Capitol Records: released November 23, 1964; peaked at No. 7]

Beatles ’65
[Capitol Records: released December 15, 1964; nine weeks at No. 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Early Beatles
[Capitol Records: released March 22, 1965; peaked at No. 43]

 

Mastering Notes

These albums were cut for vinyl from the original master tapes using a completely analog signal path and with constant reference to first generation pressings of the original albums. They were made using a Studer A80 master recorder with analog preview & program paths, and an Neumann VMS70 cutting lathe originally installed in Capitol Studios in 1971. This specific all-analog cutting technique allows faithful representation of the full musical range and dynamics present on the original tapes.

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GEORGE HARRISON’s FUTURAMA ELECTRIC SELLS FOR A RECORD $1.27 MILLION AT AUCTION

The 1959 electric George Harrison played during the Beatles' early days joins the one-million dollar club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Harrison’s iconic Futurama was sold for $1.27 million, a world record fee for one of the former Beatles’ guitars.

The event was hosted by Julien’s Auctions, and the George ’s Futurama that was the star of the show.

What wasn’t expected was the fee. This was more than twice the estimated value of the guitar. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the Futurama is hardly what you would call a high-end build. It is not one of Harrison’s vintage Gretsch guitars. It is not his Rocky Strat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George paid just £58 for this oddball electric. Ironically, he picked it up on 20 November 1959 from Hessy’s music shop in Liverpool, and 65 years later to the day it broke the one-million dollar barrier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“George Harrison’s iconic Futurama guitar, one of the most important guitars in rock and roll history and formative to The Beatles’ sound, has made history at today’s auction,” said Martin Nolan, executive director, Julien’s Auctions. “We’re beyond thrilled to add this Harrison guitar to the Julien’s Auctions’ million-dollar club, which already includes guitars from John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Kurt Cobain.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George took it to Hamburg as the Beatles launched their career onstage, playing night after night, a gruelling apprenticeship that whipped them into shape. It also featured on early Beatles recordings

 

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