Handwritten Lyrics of Lovely Rita, Meter Maid

by The Beatles, Paul McCartney

$500,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

1967. Paul McCartney’s handwritten, working manuscript as Beatle for “Lovely Rita,” from the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. the most famous album in the entire panorama of modern music. This is the very first rough draft, 10 lines in ink , all in Paul’s handwriting and all written on a single side of an irregular scrap of lined paper 7 1/2” X 5” torn from a spiral notebook. 7 lines in black are Paul’s first concept. 3 lines of

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