An album signed by John Lennon, just hours before he was shot dead, has fetched $38,700 at auction. The “Double Fantasy” album was one of number of items of pop memorabilia which fetched almost £500,000 at an auction in London on June 14th. A pair of Jimi Hendrix’s leather boots fetched over $15,000. Source: The Independent

Illinois wants to rescue John Lennon’s guitar from the defunct Peace Museum. The guitar and other stuff has been sitting at storage sites, one of which may have “suffered significant water and mold damage,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan says. Madigan says that since no one, including museum administrator Melissa McGuire, has reregistered as a museum trustee, its valuables should to be handed over to “bona fide” charitable organizations. In her complaint in Cook County Court, Madigan says, “The Peace Museum…

Lennon was a profilic letter writer and the collection includes hundreds of letters he wrote throughout his life. Yoko Ono has sold rights for a reported fee of over £500,000ukp to a London publishing house. The collection is scheduled to be published in October 2012. Source: NME

An English Heritage blue plaque to John Lennon is to be unveiled in London by Yoko Ono Oct. 23 at 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone, London [Pipes, it's pronounced "marly-bone"] a former home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved in the address in July, 1968, when the Beatles were recording “The Beatles” White Album. They shot the famous ”Two Virgins” album cover in the basement and were also arrested at the flat after a police…

Yoko Ono has written to the parole board at Attica prison in New York opposing the possible release of John Lennon’s killer Mark Chapman. Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed by the board next week (beginning August 9) in regards to gaining parole. He is serving 20 years to life for fatally shooting the Beatle outside his New York home in December 1980. Ono’s lawyer Peter Shukat confirmed that a letter had been sent to the board, but refused to…

John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to Beatles song A Day In The Life have sold for $1.2m (£810,000) at auction, well above the price expected. The double-sided sheet of paper with notes written in felt marker and blue ink was sold at Sotheby’s in New York. The lyric sheet also contains some corrections and other notes penned in red ink. The song – co-written with Paul McCartney – is the final track on the band’s 1967 Sgt Pepper album. The buyer…

NME.com A rare set of lyrics thought to have been written by John Lennon while he was in The Beatles have gone on public display in Liverpool. The lyrics, which you can read by scrolling down, have baffled Beatles fans, who are unable to fathom when they were written. They are on show as part of Lennon’s first wife Cynthia and son Julian’s White Feather: The Spirit of Lennon exhibition, which has been created in conjunction with the Beatles Story…

examiner.comThis Hofner Senator guitar formerly owned by John Lennon was sold at auction July 1. (Photo: Christie’s Images, 2009) John Lennon’s vintage Hofner Senator guitar, accompanied by a letter written by George Harrison that confirmed it belonged to him, sold Wednesday at Christie’s auction house for £205,250 (roughly $335,331.00 at current exchange rates). The guitar had been estimated to sell from £100,000 to 150,000, according to the auction house (roughly $163,379 to $245,069 at current exchange rates). The buyer’s name…

christies.comLot Description JOHN LENNONA 1958 Hofner Senator GuitarSerial No.4697, Senator model, natural finish, 22 fret fingerboard with five triple dot inlays, back of the neck applied with a square paper sticker the blue background with cream lettering spelling LOVE; Compensator tailpiece, bound f-holes, plastic facia with a Hofner logo, simulated tortoiseshell pickguard; and contour case containing a few pieces including a contemporary set of Martin Bronze strings, and a simulated tortoiseshell guitar pick; accompanied by: a facsimile copy of a…