A rare Beatles record, described as the ‘Holy Grail’ of rare records, has sold at auction for £77,000.
The one-off recording fetched more than seven times the estimate (£10,000) as it went under the hammer this week.
This is the first time that the record has been available to the public after it was discovered in the loft of keyboardist Les Maguire earlier this year.
The Gerry and the Pacemakers musician was given the record by Beatles manager Brain Epstein back in 1963 and it lay forgotten in his home for fifty years.
Maguire decided to auction off the rare disc this week so that he could help his granddaughter buy a house.
Ahead of the sale he told the BBC: “I’ve never been a big fan of memorabilia, but people seem to like it.
Epstein’s hand-writing can be seen on the disc, which is labelled as being the work of ‘Paul McCartney & The Beatles.’
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OMW @ the guy who moved into that house and found it lying somewhere in the attic
It was sold to a private collector as well, not to a company.
