Das Beatles' first contract
20 August 2015 - 02:10
The first recording contract ever signed by The Beatles - during their early days in Hamburg, Germany - is expected to fetch about $150000 when it goes on auction in New York next month, the company handling the sale said. The contract, written in German and signed in 1961 by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and then drummer Peter Best, is part of a 300-lot collection of Beatles memorabilia.Dean Harmeyer, consignment director at Heritage Auctions, called the contract "perhaps the most historically important Beatles document to ever appear at auction." ..
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