The Beatles Autograph Expert for Sotheby's & Christie's
The Autograph Expert for Sotheby's & Christie's
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The first recording session for John Lennon’s masterpiece “I Am the Walrus” took place on September 5, 1967. The genesis of the non-sensical lyric lines in this amazing song had only come to fruition a few days earlier, when John received a letter from a then current Quarry Bank High School student, who after asking…
TWO! That’s all there are, just two. In the world of Beatles autographs it doesn’t get much rarer than that. It goes without saying that Beatles autograph sets with their manager Brian Epstein are far and few in between. Naturally, in most instances when a fan or group fans were obtaining the autographs of The…
Way, WAY at the top of most Beatles autograph collector’s “Holy Grail List” would without doubt be a Meet The Beatles album cover signed by The Beatles on their first U.S. visit shortly after its January 20, 1964 release date. Everything changed here in the United States within mere weeks of the albums release, as The…
In the spring of 1963, in his Wardour Street studios in London, photographer Dezo Hoffmann held a photo session with The Beatles that produced the single most iconic image of the band ever taken: the classic seated collarless suits portrait that was used on countless pieces of memorabilia and sent around the world for publicity…
There was a time when The Beatles earned just a few pounds a night and the venues were so rough, survival skills were as important as playing ability. In 1961, few places were as violent as Hambleton Hall in suburban Liverpool. Fights would routinely break out as groups of ‘teddy boys’ (roughnecks) settled their differences…
Friday, February 7, 1964. It is arguably the most decisive day in the history of The Beatles. At 11:00 a.m., the group and their entourage boarded Pan Am flight 101 at London’s Heathrow Airport and embarked on the trip that would change the world forever. This was their first journey to America, and they were…
She’s not the runaway who inspired “She’s Leaving Home”, but 13-year-old Elizabeth Freedman garnered her own share of international publicity when, on October 17, 1964, she slipped away at dawn from her Newton, Massachusetts home and flew to London. Before her overseas adventures were over, she would have a fortuitous meeting with the Beatles and…
Among the most prized of all investment-grade Beatles signed or handwritten material are stage-used set lists. These were not done for the gratification of a fan, but for the group’s own private use. That these set lists survived the decades at all is incredible and, in fact, so few still exist as they were created…
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