02.07.10 | Graeme Neill in The Bookseller
John Lennon’s secret archive, including lyrics, clothes, guitars and letters from the former Beatle, will be unveiled this autumn in a book Carlton is publishing with Lennon’s son Julian.
Beatles Memorabilia: The Julian Lennon Collection will be published in September in hardback, priced £25. It is written by Brian Southall, who worked with The Beatles during his time at their record company EMI.
Editor Roland Hall said the publisher has secured a serial deal with a national newspaper so could not reveal specifics about the items. But he added: "Suffice to say there are items in the collection that nobody has ever seen before. Some were handed down by John himself, some came from Julian’s mother Cynthia, some were purchased by Julian at auction and some were gifts from others—such as May Pang and Paul McCartney . . . There has never been a collection like this in print before."
The publisher will also reissue Steve Turner’s A Hard Day’s Write, a guide to the stories behind every Beatles’ song (hardback, £20), and Paul du Noyer’s Working Class Hero (hardback, £16.99), a guide to Lennon’s solo material, in September. Lennon would have been 70 in October.
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