John Lennon's Handwritten Lyrics to Sell For $700,000

Posted on April 29, 2010

The BBC reports that John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" are expected to fetch at least $700,000 at a Sotheby's auction on June 18, 2010.

The double-sided sheet of paper with notes written in felt marker and blue ink will go under the hammer at a sale in New York on 18 June. The lyric sheet also contains some corrections and some other notes penned in red ink.

The song is the final track on the band's 1967 Sgt Pepper album.

Sotheby's called the Beatles' song, "A Day in the Life," a "revolutionary song that marked the Beatles' transformation from pop icons to artists." The song was banned by the BBC when it was released because of the line "I'd love to turn you on," which supposedly encouraged drug use. It was the first song to be censored by a national radio network in the UK.

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