Exclusive Beatles Items Are Listed For NFT Auction By Julian Lennon

John Lennon‘s son, Julian Lennon, is offering an exclusive collection of Beatles items, featured as “Lennon Connection: The NFT Collection, ” are up for auction as NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) – online bidding began January 24. Live bidding will begin February 7 at 10:00 a.m. PST in Beverly Hills.

Winners will each receive a digital (audio or visual) copy of their respective item which includes a personal narration from Lennon’s son. The physical items are not listed for auction.

Julian said that he is tired of keeping his father’s band’s possessions to himself and wants to share them with fans.

“I’ve been collecting these personal items for about 30 years, and I was getting a bit fed up with them being locked away in a vault, where I’ve had to keep them because I didn’t want them to get damaged,” he told Variety. “We did a few exhibitions in Europe with the items, and my intention was to take the collection and tour it, and I still hope to at some point in time, but obviously the last few years have not been helpful. I actually felt very bad about keeping all that stuff locked away, and I just felt that this was a unique way to continue dad’s legacy and to show people the collections I have, and with the videos and narration, to give people a little more than they would normally get and hear some stories that they haven’t heard before in a new art form and a different medium.”

A portion of the profits received from the NFT auction will go towards The White Feather Foundation which associates with humanitarian and environmental concerns.

The digital items listed for the auction are the “Hey Jude” notes written by Paul McCartney, Lennon’s Afghan coat worn during “Magical Mystery Tour,” Lennon’s black cape worn in the movie Help! and three guitars Lennon gave to Julian.

Julian’s Auctions has also previously sold Beatles items such as Ringo Starr‘s drum kit ($2.2 million), Starr’s drum head used on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 ($2.1 million), one of Lennon’s acoustic guitars ($2.4 million), McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to “Hey Jude” ($910,000).