Their music is priceless. But what is their memorabilia worth? It depends on who’s buying, when, and what you consider to be Beatles objects in the first place.
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Some artefacts receive no love. A fibreglass wall segment from the show, with an autograph and caricature by each band member, went on auction with a reserve price of just over $1 million, but found no takers.
The most expensive Beatles object ever sold has been John Lennon’s Gibson J-160E guitar (below). How it ended up at auction is quite a tale. Small-time American musician Tommy Pressley bought it — he assumed second-hand — at a music store in 1967. He sold it to a friend, John McCaw, for $175 two years later. Decades later, McCaw chanced upon a picture in a magazine, of George Harrison playing a similar guitar, with a serial number close to the one he now owned.
Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music.
Creative Director at McCartney Studios
Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times
Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik
President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc.
Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel
Lives in Playa del Rey
From Kassel, Germany
Married to Ruth McCartney
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