LONDON: Two report cards that highlight the bad behaviour of ex-Beatle John Lennon at school were knocked down at auction for $13,804 each, TracksAuction.com reported. The report cards indicated Lennon was punished with detention for fighting in class and sabotage at the age of 15. The British online auction, which rebroadcast the final bidding on its website this Sunday, sold the report cards for more than double the amount expected.
The disruptive behaviour of the composer, nicknamed the ‘class clown’, is detailed in these original 1955 documents that were saved from a mass book burning in 1970 by a teacher at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, where the singer studied.
Famous worldwide for timeless hits such as Imagine, Lennon was given detention as often as three times a day for being a nuisance in the classroom, shoving his schoolmates and having “just no interest (in class) whatsoever,” the school reports say.
One of the two report cards was signed between May 19 and June 23, 1955, while the other records the musician’s detentions between Nov 25 of the same year, and February 13, 1956.
Besides evidence of the composer’s unruly youth, up for auction was a signed copy of the ninth Beatles’ album entitled The White Album, which went under the hammer for $223,831.
At the same time, a pair of cuff links Lennon wore after his schooldays were behind him went for $17,895.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2013.
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