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 GBP200,000 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 GBP18,000 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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