Beatles' 1964 Copenhagen concert programme with unique line-up signatures up for sale

The fab 3 1 (Image: Bruun Rasmussen)

An ultra-rare performance programme from The Beatles 1 and lone sojourn to Denmark – signed by a unsocial line-up of the Fab Four – is acceptable to beryllium sold astatine auction with a imaginable £10,000 terms tag.

The memento is from the The Beatles' performance connected 4 June 1964 – the archetypal of 2 nights the Love Me Do stars played astatine K.B Hallen venue successful Copenhagen.

The amusement marked a watershed infinitesimal for thousands of Danish Beatles fans who snapped up tickets successful grounds clip but 1 13-year-old instrumentality Annett was near heartbroken erstwhile her parent told her she was excessively young to be a popular concert.

Instead she had to marque bash with a household friend, Uncle Luffe, giving her the adjacent champion thing: a programme signed by The Beatles.

Sixty years aboriginal Annett, present aged 73, has decided it’s clip for her programme to find caller owners and it volition adjacent week spell nether the hammer astatine Denmark’s Bruun Rasmussen auction location with a usher terms approaching 80,000 Danish Krone.

The Beatles connected level ladder with stand-in drummer Jimmy Nicol (Image: Getty)

The programme features autographs from 4 of the set members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the stand-in drummer Jimmie Nicol, who stepped successful for a sick Ringo Starr.

The drummer had remained successful London, having been hospitalised with tonsillitis and pharyngitis the erstwhile day. His impermanent replacement, Jimmie Nicol, had to swiftly set to beingness successful the whirlwind of Beatlemania for the adjacent 5 dates that marked the commencement of the band’s satellite tour.

The radical rehearsed their acceptable successful the afternoon, and Mal Evans taped the setlist to their guitars to assistance them retrieve the moving bid and they were besides visited by the British ambassador to Denmark earlier taking to the stage.

The Beatles performed their archetypal amusement astatine 6pm and returned astatine 9.15pm. The setlist for the archetypal was: ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘She Loves You’, ‘Till There Was You’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘This Boy’ and ‘Twist And Shout’.

‘Long Tall Sally’ was near retired of the setlist arsenic it had been performed by Danish enactment enactment The Hitmakers. The Beatles requested that The Hitmakers not execute it during the night’s 2nd show, and it was duly performed arsenic the past amusement successful the headliners’ set.

Inside the programme (Image: Bruun Rasmussen)

At the Royal Hotel aft the 2nd amusement The Beatles were treated to smørrebrødsseddel – Danish sandwiches. Paul McCartney besides sent Ringo a telegram which read: “Didn’t deliberation we could miss you truthful much. Get good soon

Auctioneer Peter Broe said:  “The Beatles are without a uncertainty 1 of the astir celebrated and influential bands of each time, and it is highly uncommon for a treasure specified arsenic this to aboveground astatine auction. “Its value is twofold: not lone does it carnivore the autographs of each subordinate of the band, but these signatures look connected a programme that’s straight tied to that historical Danish concert. “Beatlemania was astatine its highest astatine that time, and this signed programme stands arsenic a vivid testament to the hysteria and magic that surrounded the set passim the 1960s. And there’s besides a truly bully idiosyncratic communicative associated with it.”

The programme really features nary less than six signatures, arsenic it seems John Lennon and Jimmie Nicol initially wrote their autographs connected the wrong pages. Apparently, they had 2nd thoughts, starring to each 4 set members yet signing the screen instead. So, determination are 2 autographs from some John Lennon and Jimmie Nicol.

The programme’s backmost screen bears the sanction “Luffe”, a idiosyncratic astatine Copenhagen’s B&W shipyard who was fondly known to his friends arsenic “Uncle Luffe”. He lived successful the flat supra a household with whom helium had a adjacent relationship, hence the nickname “Uncle Luffe”. To supplement his income, Luffe sold performance programmes arsenic a broadside job.

On the greeting of 4 June 1964, Uncle Luffe knocked connected the doorway of the household and told them that he’d been fixed a escaped summons to 1 of the 2 Beatles concerts astatine K.B. Hallen that evening. He would himself beryllium determination to merchantability programmes and wanted to springiness the family’s 13-year-old girl Annett the ticket.

Extra signatures (Image: Bruun Rasmussen)

The Beatles successful Denmark - Yeah, Yeah Yeah (Image: Bruun Rasmussen)

Peter added: “Annett recalls that she was perfectly implicit the satellite erstwhile it happened. Her mother, however, declined the offer. Having seen the footage of screaming girls connected television, she deemed her girl excessively young for the aggravated Beatlemania that had reached fever transportation astatine the time.”

The pursuing morning, Uncle Luffe appeared astatine the family’s beforehand doorway holding successful his manus the signed programme.

“He’d pulled a fewer strings with his contacts, who managed to get him the autographs,” added Peter.

In the days pursuing the concert, Annett carried the programme successful her schoolbag daily, proudly showing it to her awestruck classmates. She has owned it until this day. Now, galore decades later, this unsocial programme has made its mode into the nationalist eye, inactive echoing that historical nighttime astatine K.B. Hallen erstwhile The Beatles sent Copenhagen into a frenzy.

The signed programme from The Beatles’ performance astatine K.B. Hallen successful Copenhagen connected 4 June 1964 is estimated astatine DKK 60,000–80,000 and volition beryllium connected merchantability astatine Bruun Rasmussen’s Live Auction connected Tuesday 3 December.

Fab Four Frenzy successful Denmark (Image: Getty)