The Quarrymen: ‘That’ll Be the Day’/’In Spite of All the Danger’īefore The Beatles, there were the Quarrymen, which consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and a couple of guys most people have never heard of named John ‘Duff’ Lowe and Colin Hanlon.
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That $4 would have been worth about $35.50 in 2015 when it sold at auction at Elvis’ former home of Graceland, but The King outpaced inflation.Īn undisclosed internet buyer paid $240,000 for the 78-rpm record - plus a 25% premium that made Graceland Auctions $60,000 richer. In 1953, an 18-year-old Presley paid $4 for the recording at Sun Records in Memphis, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The King’s career began with “My Happiness,” the first song that Elvis Presley ever recorded. An anonymous bidder ended up paying nearly 10 times that amount, crushing not only analyst expectations, but all previous records for a similar item.Īll four members of the Beatles are believed to have signed the cover right around the album’s release in June 1967, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pepper’s’ is the defining album of the counterculture era, so few eyebrows were raised when estimators predicted that a rare autographed copy would command $30,000 at auction in 2013.
In 2016, a first-state sealed stereo copy of the “Butcher Cover” version of the album - which was meant as an artistic protest of the Vietnam War - sold for $125,000 at auction.
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