A letter John Lennon wrote by hand to television host Joe Franklin fetched more than $28,000 dollars at RR Auction in Boston, MA on Thursday night, a Rolling Stone report says.
The letter was written by Lennon in 1971 on an Apple Records stationary, convincing the New York-based host to listen to his wife Yoko Ono's recently released album "Fly." The Beatles legend praises Ono's musical talents in the letter, says New York Daily News.
"Of course Yoko can explain her music better in person, this is a kind of introduction. For something rather more 'straight,' a track called 'Mrs. Lennon' on 'Fly' is an example of her more conservative side," said Lennon, whose iconic band had broken up the previous year.
"She was trained as a classical musician, and took music composition in Sarah Lawrence College as her major. It's far out, but don't let it frighten you," he said.
Several other Beatles-related mementos were sold during the auction. Also sold was a batch of stock transfer sheets from 1969 signed by all the four members of the band, which fetched $16,000 dollars.
But the Beatles items only formed part of the 350 rock memorabilia auctioned off in the event. The auction also featured a Crosby, Stills and Nash gold record, an autographed sheet music for Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and a guitar that once belong to Journey's Neil Schon.
Scoring the biggest bid of the evening was the Fender Precision bass guitar owned and signed by The Ramones' Dee Dee Ramon, according to NME. The instrument, which the late punk rocker played during the band's mid-'80s tours, was bought for just a little less $38,000.
Another Ramones-related item sold was Joey Ramone's handwritten lyrics to his solo effort "Maria Bartiromo," which he wrote about the business news anchor he was infatuated with. The lyrics were bought for $1,886 by Bartiromo herself.