The Beatles arriving at Dublin Airport in November, 1963. You’ve got to do that. Now, that first-ever German deal is set to hit the auction block as the highlight of a series of Beatles-related items from Heritage Auctions.
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A guitar played by George Harrison in 1963 sold for $485,000 in New York in May and a collection of John Lennon manuscripts and drawings for two books he wrote in the mid-1960s sold for $2.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction in 2014.
It led to the single My Bonnie, which was released on Polydor in Germany under the name Tony Sheridan and the Beat Boys.
Along with the band’s first contract, the auction will also include a postcard Ringo sent to his grandmother from Hamburg in 1960, a Swiss restaurant menu the Beatles signed during the filming of “Help!” and an autographed copy of “Love Me Do”.
This is being sold on September 19 in New York as part of the personal collection of Uwe Blaschke, a German Beatles historian who died in 2010.
“Not many people know that the Beatles started their careers in Germany”, Beatles expert Ulf Kruger told The AP. Signed in 1961 by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and then-drummer Pete Best, the contract came when the quartet served as Tony Sheridan’s backing band for the single “My Bonnie”.
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The Beatles’ first recording contract will be auctioned in New York next month, with an expected value of $150,000 (£95,600).
