Paul McCartney’s scribbled notes for a studio recording of “Hey Jude” was sold for $910,000 at an auction by Julien’s Auctions. The auction was to mark the 50th anniversary of the band’s breakup. There were other items sold in the online auction, totaling 250 items, as Reuters detailed:
A vintage bass drumhead with The Beatles’ logo that was used during the English band’s first North American tour in 1964 was another top item, selling for $200,000.
A drawing by John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono called Bagism, a term they coined to satirize stereotyping, sold for $93,750, while an ashtray used by the Fab Four’s drummer Ringo Starr at the Abbey Road recording studios in London fetched $32,500.
The wooden stage of the small Liverpool venue where the band performed before they rocketed to fame went for $25,600.
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