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John Lennon's original draft of lyrics to the
groundbreaking Beatles song A Day in the Life has gone on sale.
The manuscript, being sold in New York in a sealed-bid auction ending 7 March, is expected to
fetch about $2m, auction house Bonhams said.
Lennon wrote the song after reading about the death of his friend,
Guinness heir Tara Browne, in the Daily Mail on 17 January 1967.
It became the final track on the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
album.
The manuscript was last sold in 1992 by the estate of Beatles road manager Mal Evans for $100,000, in London, to an
unknown collector.
Lennon's handwritten lyric sheet for the Beatles' 1967 live satellite
broadcast of All You Need is Love sold in July last year for $1.04m.
Martin Gammon, of Bonhams, said the sale price could be $2m "based on
market history".
This would make it the most valuable musical manuscript composed in the
20th Century to be offered at auction, he added.
The song, considered to be one of The Beatles' finest, begins "I read
the news today, oh boy" and was famously inspired by the copy of the Daily
Mail, which included reports of the coroner's verdict on the death of Tara
Browne.
The millionaire was killed in a car crash after driving at high speed
through London. It led to the line: "He blew his mind out in a car, he
didn't notice that the lights had changed."
A study showing that the streets of Blackburn had 4,000 potholes was
also immortalised by the lyrics: "I read the news today, oh boy, 4,000
holes in Blackburn, Lancashire."
Paul McCartney added the middle section, including the line: "Found my
way upstairs and had a smoke, somebody spoke and I went into a dream."
The Beatles split three years later in 1970
and in 1980 Lennon was shot dead in New York,
aged 40, by Mark David Chapman.
(Agencies) |
約翰·列儂《生命中的一天》親筆歌詞手稿近日被拍賣，這首歌曲是披頭士樂隊具有里程碑意義的一首作品。
據邦漢姆拍賣行介紹，歌詞手稿在紐約被密封拍賣，拍賣將持續到3月7日。成交價格預計會達到200萬美元左右。
1967年1月17日，列儂在《每日郵報》上看到他的朋友塔拉·布朗尼（愛爾蘭著名釀酒商Guinness的后代）的死訊后，創作了這首歌曲。
這首作品是專輯《佩珀中士的孤獨之心俱樂部樂隊》中的最后一個曲子。
歌詞手稿曾在1992年被披頭士領隊麥爾·伊萬斯以10萬美元的價格賣給了倫敦一個不知名的收藏家。
列儂創作的歌曲《你需要的就是愛》歌詞手稿在去年7月以104萬美元被賣出， 1967年，披頭士在一次現場衛星直播節目中演唱了這首歌。
邦漢姆拍賣行的馬丁·蓋蒙說，按照這個市場行情，這次拍賣的成交價格達到200萬美元不成問題。
他說，這樣一來，在所有被拍賣的20世紀創作的歌詞手稿中，《生命中的一天》將成為最有價值的一首。
這首歌被視為披頭士樂隊的經典之作之一，歌曲開頭寫到"今天我看了報紙，噢，天哪"，歌詞創作受到《每日郵報》的啟發，報紙上刊登了塔拉·布朗尼的驗尸報告。
這個百萬富翁超速駕車穿越倫敦城，結果在車禍中喪身。歌詞這樣寫道："這個人在車內神智不清，他沒有注意到紅綠燈信號已經換了。"
有一項調查顯示布萊克伯恩市街道上的坑多達4000個，結果這也被寫進了歌詞，"今天我看了報紙，噢，天哪。蘭開夏布萊克伯恩大街上的坑有4000個。"
鮑爾·麥克卡特尼填寫了歌詞的中間部分，其中有這樣一句："走到樓上，抽了根煙，有個人在說話，我進入了夢鄉。"
3年后，也就是1970年，披頭士樂隊解散，1980年，列儂在紐約被槍殺，年僅40歲。兇手是馬克·大衛·查普曼。
(中國日報網站編譯) |
Updated: 2006-01-20 09:06
