When Gail Renard of Montreal met John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono during their "Bed-In Protest For Peace" at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel, she never expected to be given such a peace of rock history. After interviewing the couple for her high school newspaper, Renard was given a handwritten piece of paper with the lyrics to "Give Peace A Chance" as a thank you gift. Thirty nine years later, she sold the lyrics for $833,654CDN at Christie's Auction on July 11th.
Christie's spokeswoman
Zoe Schoon claimed that "
Lennon gave the sheet to [16-year-old] Gail Renard during the eight-day Bed-In."
This is not the first piece of Beatles memorabilia to be sold this week, a drum featured on the cover of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album has sold for over £500,000 at auction. A champagne bottle with all of the Beatles signatures scrawled across it also sold at auction for a staggering £7,500. The bottle was used as a prop in the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" promotional film, released in 1967.
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