A caustic, typewritten letter from John Lennon to Paul McCartney is expected to garner up to $40,000 via an ongoing auction.The auction, hosted by GottaHaveRockandRoll.com, includes the former Beatle’s “scathing reply to Paul McCartney’s published interview in the November 20, 1971, issue of Melody Maker, where Paul shared his thoughts on John and Yoko [Ono], the dissolution of the Beatles’ business partnership and more.” The highest bid is currently set at $36,000 and the auction ends at 9 p.m.
ET on August 19.The listing adds: “John was so furious when he read the interview that he sent this three-page, signed and hand-annotated letter, addressed to Paul, to Melody Maker, for publication, asking them in his own handwriting for equal time.”In the note, which Melody Maker subsequently published on December 4, 1971, about a month after McCartney’s interview, Lennon addresses “the wee McCartneys,” which included Paul, now 80, and his first wife, Linda McCartney.The U.K.
native began his grievances by detailing the financials surrounding Apple Records — a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 that was originally intended as a creative outlet for both the group and its individual members plus a variety of other artists.Lennon went on to describe a phone conversation between him and Paul, alleging that the Wings musician went “behind my back” to buy shares of Northern Songs — a limited music publishing company founded by the pair.He also claimed that McCartney “s–t all over” him and their Beatles band mates, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, after the “Get Back” singer sued them on December 31, 1970, following disagreements with their new manager at the time, Allen Klein.The “Working Class Hero” songwriter ended his
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