It seems that I haven’t been vigorous enough to update my precious little Beatles Blog.. I’m sorry, and I’m sorry for some of the stumblers here.

Anyway, I noticed that the last few of my post are all about selling Beatles memorabilia and Beatles stuff… And now, here’s what I’ve read… Sgt. Pepper’s Drum Skin Sells for more that A million dollar on a july 10 Auction!

Here’s the details:

The drum skin which appears on the famous front cover of The Beatles’ 1967 album ‘Sgt Pepper’ has sold for a massive £541,250 (over $1million) at an auction in London.

The skin was sold at Christie’s Auction House in the capital yesterday (July 10) for almost four times the estimated price. It was part of a large rock memorabilia auction which also featured Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ella Fitzgerald lots.

The second highest bid of the day was for the lyrics to ‘Give Piece A Chance’ handwritten by John Lennon which sold for £421,250. They were originally given to writer Gail Renard when Lennon and Yoko Ono were staging their ‘bed-in’ in Montreal in 1969.

Also up for sale was a series of never-seen-before Beatles photographs and a pair of sunglasses worn by John Lennon on the sleeve to ‘Mind Games’ which went for £39,000.

Elsewhere, a Gibson guitar once owned by Pete Townshend shifted for £32,450, a rare live recording of Jimi Hendrix in 1968 went for £48,050.

I wonder if any of the event can be viewed on Utube… Beatles lyrics or should I say John Lennon’s “Give peace a chance” lyrics also sold out for $833,654 something.. wow!

Another Beatles Item sold! Geesh! I better create a category for Beatle Artifact or Beatles Auction or something..

Ex-Beatles’ bike sells for £36,000

A HONDA bike owned by John Lennon and Ringo Starr sold yesterday for £36,000 – more than five times its estimate.

The 1970 Honda 160Z monkey bike was bought by Lennon as a fun way of getting around the many acres of his Berkshire home and was among the items inherited by Starr, the auctioneer Bonhams said.

“Beatles Auctions” category? Yep, I just created it!

Beatles Trivia for everyone! Did you know that John Lennon’s song, Norwegian Wood is actually a way for John Lennon to journal one of his affair. Writing delicately as to not raise any suspicion to Cynthia Lennon?

“I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me”… where the hidden message in that?

John was quoted:

“I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl’s flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I’d always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn’t tell. But I can’t remember any specific woman it had to do with.” - John Lennon

Here’s another Beatle memorabilia out for auction after the stationery autograph auctioned last time.

Almost 4 decades ago, on 1969, during the world famous “Bed-in for peace” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, a teenage fan who slipped through the tight security helped with the setup and preparation for that event. She was Gail Renard.

Gail befriended the Lennons. John gave Gail Ranard teh scribbled lyrics of the song “Give Peace a Chance” and told her to hold on for it for a while “It will be worth something someday,” predicted Lennon, which is true now.

That day was the midst of his famous eight-day “bed-in” with his new wife, Yoko Ono, in Montreal.

The lyrics will go on public view July 5 in London and will be auctioned July 10. They will also be available for viewing by appointment in New York on May 7-10.

The words to the enduring peace anthem are expected to fetch more than $400,000.

Last April 5, 2008 another die hard Beatles fan and collector has just acquired an autographed stationary of the fab four. As an additional bonus, the autograph was written in Elvis Priestley’s. The auction was held at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.

Here’s the story behind that almost $60,000 piece of paper! Apparently, John, Paul, George and Ringo were scheduled to play the Balboa Stadium in San Diego. At that very moment, the lads heard that Elvis was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style in Hollywood.

On the night of August 27, 1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrived at Elvis’s house in Bel Air.

It was also rumored that Elvis himself greeted them at the door and kiddingly said, “If you guys are going to stare at me all night,” joked Elvis, “I’m going to bed!”

Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis’s “Memphis Mafia,” probably a big fan himself.. (come on! I’m sure those time, everyone who has a radio is a fan of the Beatles) Well anyway, he got the autographs of all four Beatles on a 5″ x 8″ piece of Elvis Presley’s personal stationery, and dated the event “8/27/65.”

And that’s the story behind the $60,000 piece of paper.

John Lennon’s concert in the Madison Square Garden in New York is currently featured on Wolfgang’s Vault!.

Each week, the musicologists of Wolfgang’s Vault unearth a handful of new concerts unreleased since the date of their recording. This week’s treasures include John Lennon performing in 1972 at Madison Square Garden

Go head over there and listen to the previously unheard songs live!

Enjoy!

A so called lost John Lennon song called “Now and Then” are in discussion to be used for the upcoming tribute to the “fifth Beatle” Neil Aspinall who died last March 24. The home recording would reportedly require a restoration.

There is no news that Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr will participate in the refurnishing of the song.

Sir Paul McCartney is in mourning for his childhood friend and Beatles mentor Neil Aspinall, who has died at the age of 66. Neil died last March 24, 2008 in New York because of lung cancer.

Paul and Neil met at school when they were both 11 years old and has been friends ever since.

Mr Aspinall worked as a roadie and accountant for the band before becoming chief executive of Apple Corps and until he quits last year.

In a statement released on behalf of surviving Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the company described him as a “great man” who would be missed.

Other quotes from Paul McCartney:

“I was able to say goodbye and thank him for everything he did for us and I send my deepest sympathies to his wonderful family. I will miss him but will remember the laughs, there were plenty.”

John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, also sends here condolences to Neil Aspinall’s family

“Neil was an important member of The Beatles family. John [Lennon] loved him. I continued to treasure his wisdom and support in the years after John’s passing.

“My love and deepest sympathy go to Neil’s wife Suzy, and to his children. With love, Yoko Ono Lennon”.

Instamatic Karma is a book by May Pang, John and Yoko’s former personal assistant and John’s lover. This will again explains if not finally clarify that the supposedly ‘Lost Weekend’ where John Lennon was depressed, isolated and out of control was in fact a happy and productive time.

The books contains photos take during his stay with May Pang from the summer of 1973 to early 1975, when he reconciled with his second wife, Yoko Ono.

Lennon himself admitted those things during the interviews when he released the “Double Fantasy” album. And lurid, oft-repeated tales of a drunken John Lennon’s being evicted from the Troubadour, a nightclub in Los Angeles, seemed to support that image.

But May Pang says the opposite. Now 57, the “Lost Weekend” was a remarkably productive time, during which Lennon completed three albums — “Mind Games,” “Walls and Bridges” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll”. During this time also he produced albums for Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson, and recorded with David Bowie, Elton John and Mick Jagger.

Personally, I love reading about John Lennon. It pleases me to know that even though he’s not with us anymore, people are still interested and are still looking for more information about him. This new book is another example of it.

Her new book, “Instamatic Karma” (St. Martin’s Press), is a 140-page collection of casual photos that Pang took during her time with Lennon. Apart from a handful included in “Loving John” — cropped and in black and white, but mostly printed in full and rich color here — she has kept them in a shoe box in her closet, occasionally pulling them out to show friends.

“I began to think about publishing them just in the last couple of years,” Pang said on Monday at her publisher’s office in the Flatiron Building. “A friend of mine kept saying, ‘You tell all these stories about John, and when you do, you say, “Wait a minute, I have a photo to go along with that!” How come we never see these photos in a book?’ So, I thought maybe it’s time to put them out. It would let people see John in that world, through my eyes. And it would get rid of that whole ‘Lost Weekend’ thing, where everyone says he was always down and looked terrible. I don’t think these photos appear that way.”