John Lennon’s favourite headphones that he wore to record the Let It Be LP are set to fetch £3,000 at auction.
The broken headset was given to The Beatles’ former office boy Murray Macauley who worked at the Apple recording studios in the 1970s.
He kept the AKG K60s along with a legal document retrieved from a bin relating to the band’s split. The 71-year-old is selling the items, which he stored under his bed, at auction on April 27.
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Murray, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said: “With John’s obvious liking of this model, as demonstrated by the number of images he is seen wearing them, my headphones were used in the sessions prior to their rooftop concert at the building.”
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Lennon was shot outside his New York City apartment which left his bandmates, including Paul McCartney, devastated. The Beatles star revealed he “couldn’t talk about” John following his tragic murder in 1980.
He revealed that on the day of his friend’s death, he got home and turned on the TV to see people reflecting on “what John meant” to them all. The music icon said admitted that it affected him catastrophically and he described the loss as “too deep”.
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Sir Paul previously said: “When John died it was so difficult. It had hit me so much that I couldn’t really talk about it. I remember getting home from the studio on the day that we’d heard the news he died. Turning the TV on and seeing people say, ‘Well, John Lennon was this’ and ‘What he was, was this’ and ‘I remember meeting him’.
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“I was like, ‘I can’t be one of those people. I can’t go on TV and say what John meant to me.’ It was just too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.”
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