Beatles management agreement and Lennon collar sell for over £100,000 each
A revised Beatles management agreement with Brian Epstein sold for £122,850 and a John Lennon leather collar for £117,250 at Christie's auction.…
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Yoko on Lennon DVD
Yoko Ono has compiled a Lennon Legend DVD of rare videos, live performances and documentary footage of John Lennon.…
Lennon home movie sold for £33,000 at New York auction
Two private reels of film showing John Lennon sold for $53,775 at a New York auction, the most expensive of several Lennon items sold at Christie's, raising over £290,000 in total.…
Pauline Sutcliffe to auction brother Stuart's Beatles-era possessions
Pauline Sutcliffe is auctioning memorabilia of her brother, former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, at Bonham's on 29 July.…
Seamus Heaney praises Eminem's verbal energy
Former Oxford Professor of Poetry Seamus Heaney has praised Eminem for his verbal energy and sense of what is possible in lyrics.…
Macca sticks to turned round credits
Paul McCartney credits Beatles tracks on his UK live album to 'Paul McCartney and John Lennon' rather than 'Lennon/McCartney', as he did in the US.…
Lennon Jagger track goes under hammer
An unreleased Lennon and Jagger recording of 'Too Many' will be auctioned next month, after London dealer Tom Fisher bought it on acetate four years ago.…
100 best number ones
A public-voted list of the top 100 number ones, timed to the chart's fiftieth anniversary, puts Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at number one.…
Lennon recording expected to sell for £60k
A tape of John Lennon singing to his stepdaughter Kyoko is expected to fetch £60,000 to £80,000 at a Beatles memorabilia auction, alongside a 17,000-piece mosaic.…
NME readers nominate Oasis and Radiohead for best singles ever
NME readers have nominated tracks including Oasis's Don't Look Back In Anger, John Lennon's Imagine and Radiohead's Paranoid Android as best singles ever missed from its list.…
Skiffle pioneer Lonnie Donegan dies
Skiffle pioneer Lonnie Donegan has died in Peterborough aged seventy-one, and is credited with inspiring John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Townshend to take up guitar.…
Cobain is Newsweek cover star
Newsweek puts Kurt Cobain on its cover, serialising his diaries, which Hole's Eric Erlandson found and hid.…