For some, the ultimate leather jacket auction?

[AtlantaSpike]

George Harrison's Cavern Club jacket is going on the block

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19801/lot/300/?page_anchor=r1=402&m1=1

 

[winterland1]

Very cool. Beatle boots too. I am going to watch auctions these as I want to get thier autographs someday.

 

[Sloan1874]

Very cool. Beatle boots too. I am going to watch auctions these as I want to get thier autographs someday.

True story: during The Beatles New Zealand tour - 1964, I think - my dad was asked to chauffeur them from the airport to the hotel. He said that the crowds were so close and so heavy outside the hotel that the car he was driving was pushed sideways as he tried to get them to the door. After returning to the airport to pick Brian Epstein (my dad said that his first comment on getting into the car was "my boys, I must get to my boys!" He had to wait in the hotel for them to go to the gig, and when they came down to the foyer, he handed them a piece of hotel-headed paper and asked for their autographs, which they duly signed. Upon returning to Scotland these were gifted to my aunt, but they vanished, apparently lost during a house move.
One day, about seven or eight years ago, my dad received a call from his sister telling him that she had been clearing out the attic and found an old handbag inside of which was the original piece of paper with the signatures still clearly visible on them. They're now framed and on a wall.
Just to bring this back to the thread: I'm guessing, given the boys' amphetamine habit in Hamburg, that's going to be one slim-fitting jacket!

 

[Fanch]

Sloan1874, you are able to come up with more interesting anecdotes than anyone else on the FL. I tip my fedora to you!

 

[Sloan1874]

Sloan1874, you are able to come up with more interesting anecdotes than anyone else on the FL. I tip my fedora to you!

Thank you! Though, obviously, my dad gets credit for that one

 

[Edward]

Just to bring this back to the thread: I'm guessing, given the boys' amphetamine habit in Hamburg, that's going to be one slim-fitting jacket!

Ha! I'll bet! Then there's the fact Harrison was just a little boy of seventeen when they first went out there. I wish someone had recorded the Veatles back in those days, when they were still rock and roll.

 

[majormajor]

Ha! I'll bet! Then there's the fact Harrison was just a little boy of seventeen when they first went out there. I wish someone had recorded the Beatles back in those days, when they were still rock and roll.

They did. Unfortunately, they weren't very good......

[video=youtube;NJ96iauNG24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ96iauNG24[/video]

 

[Sloan1874]

It has a certain naif charm. Though I notice that even then, they were churning One after 509 around...

 

[Deleted member 16736]

Check out www.beatlesautographs.com. According to online auctions, your autographs could be worth a few thousand dollars.

 

[winterland1]

Shhh. I was going to offer $50.

 

[rocketeer]

Check out www.beatlesautographs.com. According to online auctions, your autographs could be worth a few thousand dollars.

A Friend has the 'With the Beatles' album signed in the 1960s, apparently they are all the corrects signatures. And it's for sale!
The Beatles were well known for signing each others autographs in fans books etc, the fan club even had the typists signing them in block lots to send out(Was in a newspaper feature a few months back, Daily Mail I think)

 

[Sloan1874]

Shhh. I was going to offer $50.

During moments of particular financial hardship I have considered taking up cat burglary, just for one night...

 

[Stearmen]

I notice no Stuart "Stu" Sutcliffe in the photos. He was the original 5th Beatle after all!

 

[jon11]

Great post

 

[rocketeer]

Had a look at the auction site, not my style at all . The only thing going for it is whom it belonged to.
Looks like something Fonzie would wear.
Just my opinions[huh]