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Handwritten lyrics of Beatles fetches $910,000

NEW YORK: Aficionados’ enthusiastic bidding to get Beatles’ handwritten lyrics manifests that despite passage of decades the artists still live in their hearts.

The successful online auction bidder paid $910,000 for the rare manuscript. According to details Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to the Beatles’ hit song Hey Jude fetched 9 times its original estimate at Julien’s Auctions.

Music specialist of  Julien’s Auctions had described the notes for a 1968 studio recording of Hey Jude as very rare and valuable: “It’s obviously a very iconic song that everyone’s familiar with. These handwritten lyrics were used in the studio as a guide when they were recording it.”

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.