Microphone used by The Beatles in Hull fetches £7,500 at Christie's auction
A MICROPHONE used by The Beatles when they played live in Hull in 1964 has been sold for £7,500. An imitation tortoiseshell plectrum used by John Lennon at the same concert fetched £4,000. The Reslosound Ltd RBT/L ribbon microphone was owned and used by The Beatles in the early 1960s. It was given to a fan after their show at the ABC Theatre in Hull city centre on October 16,1964.
Auctioneers Christie's said: "The vendor attended the Beatles concert in Hull and, following the show, he struck up a conversation with one of the band's technicians. "The vendor was keen to start his own band so the technician with whom he was speaking gave him the microphone, telling him that John Lennon thought it wasn't working properly any more so the band had no use for it. "Reslo microphones such as this example were used predominantly at the Cavern Club in the early 1960s and there are many photographs of The Beatles on stage at The Cavern using an identical microphone to the one in the auction." At the same Christie's auction, an imitation tortoiseshell plectrum, scratched with the initials JL, once owned by John Lennon and used by him on stage during the Beatles' show in Hull, sold for £4,000, £1,000 more than expected.
Source: Hull Daily Mail, UK
