An auctioneer with the
jackets that were worn by George and Ringo for five days
during the filming of Help!.
The jackets worn by George and Ringo during the
making of the 1965 Beatles' film Help! sold for more than £50,000 apiece
on Thursday.
A piano used in the movie – which Paul worked at while composing the classic song Yesterday – fetched a
similar sum.
The jacket worn by George sold for £54,000
including buyer's premium and the one worn by Starr fetched £61,100,
both to UK collectors. The 1907 Bechstein grand piano sold for £57,500,
to a South American collector.
Overall the sale of more than 200 lots of rare Beatles' memorabilia, hosted by Omega Auctions at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, fetched £264,375, including buyer's premiums. It was held to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' number one hit Can't Buy Me Love.
Help!
was a comedy adventure, directed by Richard Lester, which saw the group
come up against an evil cult and flee to the Austrian Alps to seek
refuge. The jackets were worn throughout the five days of filming in the
Alps and also featured on the album cover of the soundtrack. They came
from the private collection of Lester, 82, who was one of the most
influential directors of the 1960s, directing The Beatles' first film A
Hard Day's Night as well as Help!
The piano was in Twickenham
studios from around the 1930s until Lester bought it from the studio in
the late 1960s. As for Yesterday, Lester has said: "When coming to the
end of the shooting of the film, Paul was spending a lot of time at the
piano composing and fine tuning Yesterday, or the Scrambled Eggs song as
it was originally entitled by Paul.
"He was playing it that much
that I actually threatened to remove the piano off the set if he didn't
finish the song soon and give it a rest. When it was released in August
1965 Paul actually sent me a copy with a note attached saying: 'I'm glad
you didn't take the piano away – hope you like the Scrambled Eggs song
now!"'
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