It's not often that my interest is genuinely piqued by a memorabilia auction, but 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' is one of my favouritest Beatles songs, and so I am vaguely interested by the fact that George Harrison's hand written lyrics to the track are expected to fetch around $800,000 when auctioned in the US on Monday.
The document has added interest for the collector, however, because of the words "the band leader said he ain't playin' no more", scrawled at the bottom of the document - apparently a reference to personal and creative tensions amongst the band whilst they worked on the White Album. It's thought by the original owner of the document that the words refer to Paul McCartney.
The document features lyrics sung on an acoustic version of the track recently released on the Love album, which differ slightly from the album version.