John Lennon's lyrics failed to sell at an auction
John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for the Beatles song ╚I'm Only Sleeping╩, scribbled on the back of a final demand bill, failed to sell at an auction. It had been expected to sell for up to £200,000 but did not reach its reserve price at the auction by Christie's in London.
The first working draft of the lyrics, penned by Lennon in 1966 for the famous ╚Revolver╩ album, is briefer than the final recorded version and several deletions, alterations and variations were made to the text. The seventeen lines, mostly written in blue felt pen, have been held in a private collection for over thirty years and were appearing at auction for the first time.
A previously unheard interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono fetched £18,000 at the sales. The Lennon-Ono interview was conducted in 1969 at a ╚Bed in for Peace╩ protest in Canada. Christie's says it has never been broadcast and has been locked away in a trunk ever since.
According to representatives of the auction house, the only existing recording of a concert in Hong Kong in 1964, made by a journalist in the audience using a portable tape recorder, also failed to sell.
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