John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for 'All You Need Is Love' sold for £600 grand at that memorabilia sale at the Hippodrome last week. As previously reported, the manuscript, found on his music stand after The Beatles final TV appearance in 1967, was one item in a collection of Lennon memorabilia which went on sale in London on Thursday. Commenting on the sale of the piece, auction house director Ted Owen explained why someone might pay that sort of money for a piece of paper that a famous person once wrote on: "It's probably one of the few remaining Beatles lyrics in private collectors' hands and one of the most important musical manuscripts in existence. It was the anthem of the peace movement . . . the anthem of 1967."
Elsewhere in the sale, that military tunic that allegedly inspired the Sergeant Pepper album cover, after Lennon wore it for a Life magazine shoot in 1966, went for £100k, a piano from the Beatles star's New York apartment brought £140k, and a pair of his round specs sold for £55k.