Those previously reported handwritten John Lennon lyrics for the song 'A Day In The Life' have gone on sale in New York in a sealed bid auction set to end on 7 Mar, and auction house Bonhams say they expect it to fetch around two million dollars.
The item was last sold in 1992 at Sotheby's in London and went for £56,600, but Bonhams spokesman Martin Gammon said the lyrics could raise a lot more this time around "based on market history". One presumes that he's going on the fact that Lennon's handwritten lyrics to 'All You Need Is Love' raised £600,000 back in August last year, and ignoring the fact that his handwritten lyrics to 'I'm Only Sleeping' failed to sell at all in November of 2005.
If it does make $2million, he continued, it would make it "the most valuable musical manuscript composed in the 20th century to be offered at auction," or, to put it another way, the most stupid amount of money ever paid for a piece of paper with some words on it.