The first recording contract ever signed by The Beatles is up for auction in New York next month and is expected to sell for upwards of 150, 000 dollars (130, 600 euros) .
It was signed in 1961 during the group’s early days in Hamburg when drummer Pete Best was still in the band.
The contract is part of a collection of 300 lots of Beatles memorabilia assembled by the late German record producer Uwe Blaschke.
“It’s a very important career milestone for them, because it’s their first professional recording”, said Dean Harmeyer of Heritage Auctions. “But the fact that the contract leads them on to their manager Brian Epstein, that it leads on to the recording contract with EMI, makes it absolutely crucial to the story.”
The contract was for a record that didn’t even carry the name of The Beatles. “My Bonnie”, a German song, was credited to Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers. The record company thought the The Beatles an unsuitable name for a German audience.
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