Beatles Guitar gently weeps manuscript auction - The Beatles: how much they auction the manuscript of "While my guitar gently weeps"!

The song, included in the White Album, was about to be left off the record.

Over almost ten years, everything they touched turned it into gold. And 50 years after their separation, they continue to generate a lot of money on the daily memorabilia of their days, which plays a very important role in the lives of the (wealthiest) fans of the greatest band of all time.

The manuscript of the temazo "While my guitar gently weeps", composed by George Harrison for the White Album, the album that generated the final break in the Beatles' relations, goes on auction. The price: 195 thousand dollars.

Beatles Guitar gently weeps manuscript auction

The lyrics are written on the back of a recording sheet of Abbey Road studios, used to account for the time and cost of a recording session. Harrison's calligraphy is distinguished in the first stanza of the theme, and then Ringo Starr appears to complete it with words full of spelling errors.

The origin of the song

George Harrison composed "While my guitar gently weeps" after the season that the Beatles spent in India with Maharishi Yogi in the summer of 1968. After a year of hard work, the entire group with their wives decided to investigate different techniques of Meditation in paradise offered by the spiritual leader.

Upon returning, the guitarist - the first of the band to dabble in Eastern philosophy - wrote the subject while reading the I Ching. The first version was acoustic, with a beautiful guitar performance. When he showed it to his teammates, none seemed impressed. Harrison, who had flourished as a composer from Revolver, had a hard time getting his songs into the band's records. The iron power that John Lennon and Paul McCartney exercised over beatle discography frustrated him.

During the White Album recording sessions, internal tensions within the band flourished, to the point that each member took the rest as sessionists within their songs. At the risk of losing one of his best compositions, it occurred to Harrison to call his friend Eric Clapton, considered at that time the best guitarist in the world, to play on the subject.

Clapton's arrival at the studio not only eased the moods, but he put the Beatles back to work as an integrated band. Using Harrison's Gibson Les Paul guitar, he nailed a single tremendous one that made the song transform, making it an indispensable piece of the album. Lennon and McCartney had no choice but to include it.

They find a Beatle treasure and auction it at an exorbitant price

A school notebook that belonged to Paul McCartney sold for almost 50 thousand pounds.

Beatle treasures seem to multiply as the years go by. A simple object with no apparent value is suddenly auctioned, it takes on a memorabilia character and fans go crazy for owning a piece of the history of the most important band of all time. Such is the case of a Paul McCartney school notebook, which was auctioned in England for 46,800 pounds (don't transfer to pesos because you're going to want to kill yourself).

The exercise book, which also includes several scribbles made by McCartney, was sold ten times more expensive than its original estimate. Initially it was believed that he would pay between four and six thousand pounds for the item, but its price ended up surprising everyone.

The notebook corresponds to the English literature class and features essays, scribbles and drawings by the young Beatle. In addition, he has corrections and grades from his high school teacher in the margins.

In addition to the notebook, a pair of glasses were also sold without the lenses and a suit that John Lennon once wore. However, what is most striking was that a cassette of songs written by George Harrison was not sold. The tape, which contains unpublished tracks, was composed and recorded in 1978 but it seems that it was not of great interest to the bidders.