B42108 – David Bowie Signed Magazine Page Image (UK)
Original price was: £695.00.£495.00Current price is: £495.00.Add to basketA colour page taken from a magazine featuring an image of David Bowie. The magazine page has been signed in gold pen by David. He has added ‘To Bianca’ and ‘95’ above and below his autograph respectively.
The page measures 25.5cm x 30.5cm (10 inches x 12 inches). There is some wear and tear to the edges and creasing over the surface. The condition is very good minus.
B45028 – Stephen Stills Handwritten Notes To Mac Holbert (USA)
£695.00Add to basketA pair of notes in the hand of Stephen Stills to the Crosby, Stills and Nash manager, Mac Holbert. Undated but circa 1980s. The first, written in blue ballpoint pen is on a piece of Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky note paper, it reads ‘O Dark THIRTY, Mac Was up real late writing regret must pass on museum call when ready for golf course and I’ll get a cab and meet you all there. FOR SURE Stephen’. The second, written in pencil on a piece of yellow notepad paper reads ‘Dear Mac. RE: The Lowenstein Foundation reception: all these negotiations: Any idea why no writes for me? Stills’.
Provenance: the notes come directly from the private collection of Mac Holbert who started in the spring of 1971 as an assistant truck driver and gopher for the Crosby & Nash Tour. In 1973 he became Graham Nash’s assistant and eventually tour manager. He also managed tours for Crosby, Stills Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young, Poco, America, Dwight Twilley, Peter, Paul And Mary, and Carole King, and did so through 1991. After his retirement from the road, Holbert continued his business relationship with Graham Nash, as well as his friendship with this legendary trio of musicians.
The hotel paper measures 9.1cm x 10.6cm (3.5 inches x 4.15 inches). The condition is excellent.
The notepaper measures 21.5cm x 13.75cm (8.4 inches x 5.4 inches). The condition is very good.
B45699 – The Beatles 1966 Beatles Blitztournee Programme (Germany)
£350.00Add to basketAn original Beatles concert programme from the ‘Beatles Blitztournee’ when they performed six concerts in Munich, Essen and Hamburg between the 24th – 26th June 1966. At the top of the cover page are unauthentic Beatles signatures.
The programme measures 21.5cm x 28cm (8.4 inches x 11 inches). There is light wear to the cover pages and spine. The condition is very good plus.
B37554 – Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 Are You Experienced Track Record New Release Sheet (UK)
Original price was: £350.00.£195.00Current price is: £195.00.Add to basketAn original new release sheet for the Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 debut album ‘Are You Experienced’. It features the track listing with the Track Records logo in the top right corner and the Polydor Records depot information at the bottom.
The sheet measures 14.6cm x 21.6cm (5.6 inches x 8.5 inches). There is some light creasing to the sheet. The condition is very good plus.
B40984 – The Who 1967 Bath Pavilion Handbill (UK)
Original price was: £350.00.£195.00Current price is: £195.00.Add to basketAn original handbill that was produced to promote concerts that were taking place at Bath Pavilion, Bath, England in April and May 1967. One of the concerts was a performance by the Who that took place on 24th April 1967.
The handbill measures 12.5cm x 18cm (4.9 inches x 7.1 inches). There are horizontal and vertical fold lines and a small hole on the left side. The condition is very good.
B40983 – The Who 1966 Bath Pavilion Handbill (UK)
Original price was: £350.00.£195.00Current price is: £195.00.Add to basketAn original handbill that was produced to promote concerts that were taking place at Bath Pavilion, Bath, England throughout October 1966. One of the concerts was a performance by the Who that took place on 10th October 1966.
The handbill measures 12.5cm x 20.25cm (4.9 inches x 8 inches). There are horizontal and vertical fold lines. The condition is very good.
B45767 – Eric Clapton 1988 Autographed Guitar Player Magazine (UK)
£495.00Add to basketA copy of Guitar Player magazine from August 1988 autographed on the front cover by Eric Clapton. Eric has added the inscription ‘To Jim’ above his name.
Provenance: from the collection of graphic designer Bogdan Zarkowski who worked extensively within the music industry from the 1970s to present day.
The magazine measures 20.5cm x 27cm (8.1 inches x 10.7 inches). The condition is excellent.B29511 – Marc Bolan Gods & Men Handwritten Story 15 Pages (UK)
£5,950.00Add to basketA 15 page handwritten story in the hand of Marc Bolan that dates to the 1970s. Written in both pen and pencil, all but one of the pages are single sided. The story reads as follows:
‘Gods + Men In a far off world; hoary withage surrounded by mists in a star system barren + decaying dwelt. Albany. He was once a man but now something more, the breath of a million stab had altered his metabolism into the image of a god, but what god + whose was this the visage of star one lotty brow punctured with pores + green with molds and bacteria, legless but still walking eyeballs, orbs of contradiction leaning out into the foggy night on crimson stalks seeing nothing yet smelling all Albany the man it would seem, had long what remained what loped on his misshapen husk of a body thru the mists of this barren planet, was it him, ashemoc the cursed cuber, the god who would + was willing or tylon the windy, the multi beaked, the wandera (sic) or even yet purna, the everyman the changeless, the frozen one on a a dark dawn in a morning of ice a manship came from the world beyond the worlds it landed on a planet of freezing dust two Earthmen cowled (sic) in plastics + fish bowls of glass, wandered numb thru the forests of white Oaks they ran like children thru the valley of eternal snow at last unknowing they entered like meat, the plateau of the beast over a cold smoldering (sic) fire they talked of earth + tryed (sic) to but the warmth they caught from the memory of their loved ones into their chilled hearts to give them heat + courge (sic), they dozed in pale canopys (sic) like cosmic boy scouts they were awoken at dawn by a mighty wind which clawed at their tent like a lion + then he came the first caress from his deamon (sic) mind brought blindness in his minds mouth he crunched the eyeballs like cracking over fried eggs + then their limbs, he sucked the bones bare like a tennessee chicken eater the nails + lips, rare delocosge (sic) he chomped slowly the howls of pain shook the foilage (sic) in the forest of white oak + lastly the heart. A master piece by a hated master littered the floor making heigylphs (sic) + cosmic rune talk. The earthmen lay swamped in living debre (sic), unseeing all feeling + dying torry (sic) gullit (sic) lain on broken armpit+ gorned (sic) fingers the only unraped (sic) personage that remained in the plundered citadel of the body was their hearts. Albany loped wildly beneath the golden sythe (sic) of the moon his toothless roughed mouth with blood his unholy appettiae (sic) for once fully appeased he scurryed (sic) to a brook + broke the frozen water with a crimson claw knelt on bony knees to drink the water his long fleshy tongue was revealed + on it still beating was the double heart’. Crossing out and corrections on every page.
Each page measures 10.2cm x 13cm (4 inches x 5 inches). The condition is very good plus.B45614 – John Lennon Related Cynthia Powell (Lennon) 1958 Liverpool College of Art Examination Results Sheet (UK)
£495.00Add to basketA Liverpool College of Art Intermediate Drawing School examination results sheet for second year students, group 3. The assessment period was November – December 1958. Cynthia Powell’s (Lennon) name is printed in the list of students and her results for each subject have been handwritten on the form by her respective teachers. The result for her Craft test has not been filled in.
Some notable students names that are listed in the class include:-
Anthony Carricker (Tony) was one of John’s earliest and most influential friends at Liverpool Art College with his passion for American music especially Rock n’ Roll and R n’ B and his amazing record collection. It was Tony that wrote out the lyrics to ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ for John so that he could learn the song. Tony also borrowed rare records from the American Embassy through the Smithsonian, the records were all delivered to his tiny house in Widnes with return postage pre-paid, John was indebted to Tony for broadening his musical horizons. At one point in 1959 Tony held the Quarrymen ‘That’ll Be The Day/In Spite Of All The Danger’ Kensington acetate but he used it as collateral to get back an Elvis Presley LP that he had loaned to John. He was even asked to join the group.
In 1958 during a discussion John said to Tony ‘I’ll play my guitar in pubs but I’m not working for a living’ but alas John did have to get a job to try and purchase his first electric guitar. In summer 1959 they worked together as labourers on a Southport building site, John hated the work but he knew he had to do it.
Jeff Mahomed was another of John’s friends, he was said to be a complex character and he was someone that John looked up to. It was Jeff that encouraged John to ask Cynthia to dance with him at the end of the second year dance.
Rod Murray lived with both John and Stuart Sutcliffe whilst at art college and he was also asked to join the Quarrymen. Margaret Morris (Diz), lived with Rod and Stuart Sutcliffe in Percy Street and Gambier Terrace, she also became girlfriend to Rod Murray. Phyllis McKenzie was a close friend of Cynthia’s. Other friends on the list include Pat Jourdan and Ann Mason.
The document measures 25.5cm x 20.5cm (10 inches x 8 inches). There are small creases around the corners of the document. The condition is very good.
B45751 – Queen 1982 Autographed Hot Space Tour Programme Leeds (UK)
£4,950.00Add to basketA concert programme from the UK leg of Queen’s 1982 Hot Space tour autographed on the first inside page by Queen in blue ballpoint pen. The signature of Brian May is much clearer than appears on the image. The signatures were obtained on 29th May 1982 at the Hilton Hotel, Leeds the day after the group had performed at Elland Road Football Stadium.
Provenance: accompanied by a letter from the original recipient that reads ‘Back In 1982 I was fortunate enough to go to Elland Road football ground in Leeds to see Queen live.
My fiancé at the time was the granddaughter of a chap called Sam Bolton who used to be chairman of Leeds United and latter chairman of the F.A. When he passed her grandmother and mother became shareholders in LUFC. Consequently, they were given tickets for the gig which were in the directors’ box!! We were all given a programme which I didn’t realise until I got home were signed!!!!
So, I put it on a shelf with all the other programmes I had and there it sat for 40 plus years. I’m getting a bit past it now and it’s time to let someone else have its safekeeping’.
The programme measures 24.25cm x 33.5cm (9.5 inches x 23.2 inches). The condition excellent.B45745 – George Harrison Signed Note To His Guitar Technician Alan Rogan (UK)
£1,500.00Add to basketA piece of Friar Park Studio letterhead paper on which George Harrison has handwritten a note to his guitar technician Alan Rogan.
The note reads:
‘Alan – yes – its for you! Happy Christmas (is coming) – thanks – love George’.
The note is housed in the original Friar Park mailing envelope on which George has written ‘Alan R’.
The envelope measures 19cm x 10.1cm (7.5 inches x 4 inches). There is some staining in places. The condition is very good.
The note measures 21cm x 29.5cm (8.25 inches x 11.6 inches). It has been folded to fit into the envelope. The condition is excellent.B45743 – The Beatles Hard Day’s Night Premiere London Ticket (UK)
£1,495.00Add to basketAn original large format ticket stub for the premiere of The Beatles first ever feature film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ that took place at London Pavilion, London, England on 6th July 1964. The Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein attended the event as well a host of others including The Rolling Stones. STALLS. Row AN seat 13.
The previous owner has written The Beatles names on the ticket. The ticket measures 18.5cm x 11.5cm (7.25 inches x 4.55 inches). The condition is very good plus.