{"id":30942,"date":"2024-11-27T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/handwritten-letter-from-john-lennon-to-eric-clapton-going-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T00:02:49","slug":"handwritten-letter-from-john-lennon-to-eric-clapton-going-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/handwritten-letter-from-john-lennon-to-eric-clapton-going-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwritten letter from John Lennon to Eric Clapton going up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve Morley\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A rare handwritten letter by John Lennon<\/strong> to Eric Clapton<\/strong> is set to go up for auction in Spain in December.<\/span><\/p>\n

International Autographs Auctions Europe SL will auction off the eight-page\u00a0document\u00a0from the 1970s, which seems to be a draft of\u00a0a note\u00a0in which The Beatles<\/strong> legend writes of a new band he wants to start and personally asks Clapton to join.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the letter, Lennon describes the project as a \u201cnucleus group\u201d featuring musicians like Klaus Voorman<\/strong>, Jim Keltner<\/strong>, Nicky Hopkins<\/strong> and Phil Spector<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>and says that Clapton\u2019s addition would \u201cbring back the balls in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter was written during the time\u00a0when Clapton was infatuated with George Harrison<\/strong>\u2019s wife\u00a0Pattie Boyd<\/strong>, and Lennon suggests the new band would help relieve some of the pressures he was dealing with. Clapton eventually married Boyd after she divorced Harrison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Lennon never names the group in the letter, he was likely referring to the Plastic Ono Band<\/strong>, for which Clapton\u00a0was one of the rotating members.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The auction is set to take place Dec. 5. More info can be found at <\/span>autographauctions.eu<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other Beatles news, Capitol Records has announced a collaboration between The Beatles and the clothing company Online Ceramics for a new capsule collection celebrating the 60th anniversary of the band\u2019s arrival in America. The collection is <\/span>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a> now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus, a special screening of the new documentary <\/span>Beatles \u201964<\/span><\/em> will take place Dec. 5 at the Paley Center for Media in New York, with the film\u2019s director,\u00a0David Tedeschi<\/strong>, and others on hand for a panel discussion following the screening. <\/span>Beatles \u201964<\/span><\/em> will stream exclusively on Disney+ starting Nov. 29.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Morley\/Redferns A rare handwritten letter by John Lennon to Eric Clapton is set to go up for auction in Spain in December. International Autographs Auctions Europe SL will auction off the eight-page\u00a0document\u00a0from the 1970s, which seems to be a draft of\u00a0a note\u00a0in which The Beatles legend writes of aRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}