Yoko Sells John Lennon's Letters To Publisher

01/24/2011
. (hennemusic) A collection of John Lennon's letters are to be published next year. Lennon was a prolific letter writer and the collection includes hundreds of letters he wrote throughout his life.

The NME reports the letters were sold by the late Beatles' widow, Yoko Ono, for a reported fee of over �500,000 and have been bought by London-based publishing house Orion Books.

The physical copies of the letters were in the possession of The Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, but the intellectual property rights were owned by Ono - it is these that Orion have bought, reports The Guardian. more on this story

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