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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(mài)，這首歌曲是披頭士樂(lè)隊(duì)具有里程碑意義的一首作品。
據(jù)邦漢姆拍賣(mài)行介紹，歌詞手稿在紐約被密封拍賣(mài)，拍賣(mài)將持續(xù)到3月7日。成交價(jià)格預(yù)計(jì)會(huì)達(dá)到200萬(wàn)美元左右。
1967年1月17日，列儂在《每日郵報(bào)》上看到他的朋友塔拉·布朗尼（愛(ài)爾蘭著名釀酒商Guinness的后代）的死訊后，創(chuàng)作了這首歌曲。
這首作品是專(zhuān)輯《佩珀中士的孤獨(dú)之心俱樂(lè)部樂(lè)隊(duì)》中的最后一個(gè)曲子。
歌詞手稿曾在1992年被披頭士領(lǐng)隊(duì)麥爾·伊萬(wàn)斯以10萬(wàn)美元的價(jià)格賣(mài)給了倫敦一個(gè)不知名的收藏家。
列儂創(chuàng)作的歌曲《你需要的就是愛(ài)》歌詞手稿在去年7月以104萬(wàn)美元被賣(mài)出， 1967年，披頭士在一次現(xiàn)場(chǎng)衛(wèi)星直播節(jié)目中演唱了這首歌。
邦漢姆拍賣(mài)行的馬丁·蓋蒙說(shuō)，按照這個(gè)市場(chǎng)行情，這次拍賣(mài)的成交價(jià)格達(dá)到200萬(wàn)美元不成問(wèn)題。
他說(shuō)，這樣一來(lái)，在所有被拍賣(mài)的20世紀(jì)創(chuàng)作的歌詞手稿中，《生命中的一天》將成為最有價(jià)值的一首。
這首歌被視為披頭士樂(lè)隊(duì)的經(jīng)典之作之一，歌曲開(kāi)頭寫(xiě)到"今天我看了報(bào)紙，噢，天哪"，歌詞創(chuàng)作受到《每日郵報(bào)》的啟發(fā)，報(bào)紙上刊登了塔拉·布朗尼的驗(yàn)尸報(bào)告。
這個(gè)百萬(wàn)富翁超速駕車(chē)穿越倫敦城，結(jié)果在車(chē)禍中喪身。歌詞這樣寫(xiě)道："這個(gè)人在車(chē)內(nèi)神智不清，他沒(méi)有注意到紅綠燈信號(hào)已經(jīng)換了。"
有一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示布萊克伯恩市街道上的坑多達(dá)4000個(gè)，結(jié)果這也被寫(xiě)進(jìn)了歌詞，"今天我看了報(bào)紙，噢，天哪。蘭開(kāi)夏布萊克伯恩大街上的坑有4000個(gè)。"
鮑爾·麥克卡特尼填寫(xiě)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(gè)人在說(shuō)話，我進(jìn)入了夢(mèng)鄉(xiāng)。"
3年后，也就是1970年，披頭士樂(lè)隊(duì)解散，1980年，列儂在紐約被槍殺，年僅40歲。兇手是馬克·大衛(wèi)·查普曼。
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Updated: 2006-01-20 09:06
