Beatles Photos Up For Auction

Seven new black-and-white photos of The Beatles will go up for auction in London on November 10th. The photos were taken by a fan, Gwyn Blanchard, when she was only 13-years-old with a little Kodak camera. Blanchard happened to live in the town where the group was filming one of their movies, entitled Help!.

She visited the set in hopes of getting an autograph, but she ended up getting much more. Not only was she able to meet the group and get their signatures, but she was also allowed to take some candid shots of the quartet in between takes.

Blanchard described of her experience meeting The Beatles…

“We knew that the filming was going to happen that day. Being kids, we hatched a plan…We were just hoping that if we passed over our notebooks… just our English notebooks from school. We had them out, ready to hand them over when the door opened, and the manager said ‘come get them yourselves’…John Lennon was sitting down in front of me…I handed him my notebook first. He handed it then to Ringo and the pen wouldn’t work!”

Blanchard may get between $3000 and $5000 for the photos and autographs. That is a lot of money for some pictures and scribbles on a piece of paper. It would be interesting to know if there are any musicians now that could ever command that high of a price thirty years down the line. Probably not.

Source: Yahoo!