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Lot 30321 |
Beatles' Autographs on Elvis' Personal Stationery - August 27, 1965. Iconic is an understatement! It was August 27, 1965. Th... (Total: 1 Item)
Auction: 2008 April Music & Entertainment Memorabilia Signature Auction #688
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| Ended: | Apr 4, 2008 |
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Description:
"If you guys are going to stare at me all night," joked Elvis, "I'm going to bed!"
In fact, Elvis was awed too, but the ice broke and the evening found Elvis and John, Paul and George playing guitars (while Ringo, without drums, banged the side of a chair), the group admiring Elvis's new sauna, laughing at a fan who had infiltrated the house and began screaming hysterically, and discussing the terrors of fame. In one moving (and retrospectively chilling) moment, John noted that Elvis was very brave to perform in public before the wildly screaming and actually dangerous fans -- after all, onstage, the Beatles had each other.
A relic survives from that legendary meeting -- Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis's "Memphis Mafia," got the autographs of all four Beatles on a 5" x 8" piece of Elvis Presley's personal stationery, and dated the event "8/27/65." The autographs are sharp and clean in blue ink, the word "Elvis" is pre-printed in the upper left corner, and the dynamic of the signatures of the "Fab Four" on the stationery of "the King" is -- for lack of a better word -- magical.
Accompanying the lot is a copy of Disc Weekly (September 4, 1965), with the front page headline "Beatles Meet Elvis!" and The National Blast Weekly (October 10, 1965), also with the headline, "Beatles Meet Elvis!!!" All items are in Excellent condition.
"He was great, you know, just how I expected him," said John Lennon of meeting Elvis. It's a cliché, but if only this item could talk! Accompanied by Letters Of Authenticity from Jerry Shilling and renowned Beatles autograph authenticator Frank Caiazzo. Estimate: $50,000 - up.
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