Recently, more than 300 pages of long-lost Beatles documents from the ’70s were found and retrieved from an unknown cupboard. The 300 pages were various documents and legal papers compiled by numerous of The Beatles’ advisors and legal representatives. According to Dawsons Auctioneers‘ Denise Kelly, the documents were papers used in the legal battle that officially split the band up in 1974.
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The documents will hit auction on December 12 in Maidenhead and will reportedly go for around £5,000 and £8,000, per the BBC. Needless to say, the documents are not your average piece of Beatles memorabilia. What makes the documents even more alluring and cryptic is the fact that Dawson’s Auctioneers’ have yet to divulge the documents’ resting place. Instead, they only loosely revealed when someone had found the papers. Which, was in the past year.
The Beatles Break-Up & The Cryptic Papers
Denise Kelly told the BBC, “I just couldn’t put them down until I had read every page.” For Kelly, it seems reading the papers was comparable to reading a great fictional legal drama. “As I read the minutes of meetings – notes which included discussions between the legal teams and accountants” and “I wondered how on earth they were going to sort everything out, and at times I could sense panic in the room as more and more complexities came to light,” Kelly added.
To Kelly, these papers are seemingly the most honest account of The Beatles’ official break-up. “It has crossed my mind that if I were a script writer, these documents would be all I’d need to tell the real story of what led to one of the best-selling bands in history splitting up and going their separate ways,” she concluded.
Somewhat humorously, Kelly also accounted and stated, “One of the lawyers even suggested during one meeting when they had gone round and round and round in circles: ‘Would it be easier if The Beatles just retired.” The contents of these papers surely will reveal the answer if ever made public.
Who knows what will come of these papers? However, if made public, the original story behind The Beatles’ break-up will surely be partially revised.
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