A letter signed by John Lennon on the day of his homicide will go up for public sale on Wednesday at Gotta Have Rock and Roll.
The authorized doc, which is dated Dec. 8, 1980, is almost certainly one of the final gadgets Lennon signed earlier than his dying. It was despatched by the late Beatle to his accountant, Barry Nichols. In the typed letter, three individuals are listed as Lennon’s proxy voters, allowing them to vote on the Apple Corps Limited Annual General Meeting, attributable to happen 9 days later in London. The letter is anticipated to fetch between $50,000 and $70,000. (The letter’s full textual content might be seen on the web site.)
On the night of Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman exterior his house on the Dakota Building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was taken to close by Roosevelt Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless. Chapman was denied parole for the twelfth time final month.
Another letter from Lennon went to public sale earlier this 12 months – one despatched to Paul McCartney by which Lennon voiced his frustrations over his former bandmate’s claims that Lennon wouldn’t cooperate when it got here to lastly ending the Beatles’ enterprise dealings. “We’d just sign the paper and hand it to the business people and let them sort it out,” McCartney advised Melody Maker on the time. “That’s all I want now, but John won’t do it. Everybody thinks I am the aggressor but I’m not, you know. I just want out.”
Lennon’s burning reply arrived 4 days later, by which he defended his solo music and his newfound house in New York City. He additionally claimed that it was McCartney who was stalling the negotiations. “No hard feelings to you either,” Lennon wrote. “I know we basically want the same thing, and as I said on the phone and in this letter, whenever you want to meet, all you have to do is call.”
Other Beatles-related gadgets at the moment at public sale embody numerous signed albums, a tambourine owned by George Harrison and one of Lennon’s guitar picks.
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