Signed Beatles photo sells for staggering price at auction

A signed Beatles photograph has sold at auction for more than £65,000. The signed picture of the Liverpool band exceeded its expectations when it went under the hammer. The snap was for their 1964 Australian tour and had an estimate of 40,000 dollars (£31,922) but ended up selling for 83,278 dollars (£66,462).

Another Beatles item which sold at auction was a Beatles Magical Mystery Tour EP, which sold for 37,500 dollars (£31,170). Alongside a first pressing of the Beatles’ debut single Love Me Do and PS I Love You, signed the day after its release, this went for 24,079 dollars (£19,216).

RR Auction’s Marvels of Modern Music sale achieved a total of 1,132,981 dollars (£904,178) with several notable items. Other items from artists including Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon also went for a huge sum. A sheet of original working lyrics by Lydon, known as Johnny Rotten, sold for 82,638 dollars (£65,952) after an estimate of 80,000 dollars (£63,844).

The sheet featured early drafts of Holidays In The Sun and Submission, two of the Sex Pistols’ songs from their hit 1977 debut album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols. The auction achieved a total of 1,132,981 dollars (£904,178)