Last updated: Thursday, May 25, 2006
LENNON LETTER SELLS FOR $22,000
An angry letter JOHN LENNON sent a journalist who accused the former BEATLE of ripping off black music has been sold at auction in London for GBP12,000 ($22,400).
In the letter, Lennon argued, "Many kids were turned on to black music by us. It wasn't a rip off, it was a love-in."
Other items in the sale at Bonham's auction house in London included a signed copy of Beatles album SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, which sold for GBP14,000 ($26,160).
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