John Lennon’s White Album is up for public sale

8 February 2024, 14:52

The former Beatle’s copy is numbered 0000006 and the bidding has began at $50,000.

A duplicate of The Beatles‘ "White Album" as soon as owned by John Lennon is to go up for public sale – with a beginning bid of $50,000.

The stereo urgent of the 1968 self-titled double album from The Fab Four bears the serial quantity 0000006, which proves it as soon as belonged to the previous Beatle.

Lennon gifted the album to his chauffeur and bodyguard Les Anthony, who handed the document onto a relative. According to the public sale home: "The LP was re-discovered after a tv present named Find a Fortune was discussing uncommon records and the proprietor contacted the TV program and expressed his curiosity in promoting the album.

"The program then contacted Mike Vandenbosch of More Than Music who bought the historic piece."

This distinctive piece of Beatle historical past has now come up on the market by the Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.

The public sale is dwell now and ends at noon (Central Time) on Saturday twenty fourth February.

The Beatles The White Album No. #0000006 John Lennon’s Copy

The auctioneers say that the album comes full with the unique poster that served as a lyric sheet, the 4 color photographs of every particular person Beatle, and the black internal sleeves that solely appeared with early editions of the LP.

They additionally state that "the jacket cowl is in general VG-EX 6 situation with some ring put on, bending, creasing, anticipated discolouration and marking" whereas the vinyl situation ranges from "Excellent" to "Near Mint" situation throughout the 4 sides.

It’s lengthy been thought that former Beatle roadie and supervisor of the band’s Apple firm Neil Aspinall held the mono version of quantity 0000006 of the "White Album" and that solely the group’s internal circle held copies of numbers 0000001 to 0000020.

In 2015, Ringo Starr’s mono copy of the "White Album" quantity 0000001 bought for an unimaginable $790,000 – £627,000 in British cash at present.