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NAME: UK LENNON 20080710I TAPE: EF08/0709 IN_TIME: 11:05:23:12 DURATION: 00:02:28:20 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: London - 10 July 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1 Pan from poster on the wall to auction room 2 Close-up John Lennon poster 3 War is over sign 4 Mid shot of framed John Lennon lyrics 5 Close-up of framed John Lennon lyrics 6 Low shot of auctioneer during sale of lyrics 7 Gail Renard, the owner of John Lennon lyrics, sitting in audience 8 Close-up of Renard 9 Close-up of framed lyrics 10 Close-up of phone bidder 11 Zoom in to auctioneer selling John Lennon lyrics for 350-thousand pounds sterling, zoom out to wide as Renard is being congratulated 12 Over shoulder shot of bidder looking at prospectus 13 Screen showing Lot No 198: Beatles Drum from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band 14 Phone bidders 15 Mid shot of auctioneer 16 Wide shot of auction room 17 Auctioneer closing sale of Beatles drum for 450-thousand pounds sterling, zoom out to wide, applause 18 Mid shot of Beatles drum 19 Renard hugging woman at end of auction 20 SOUNDBITE (English): Gail Renard, previous owner of John Lennon lyrics: My greatest fear, and my friends will tell you, I panicked yesterday, because I didn't think it would sell And I told myself, and I meant it: if it didn't sell, I still had the lyrics, and I had the greatest time in the world and met some splendid people But, now, I've still got that (that memory) and now it's sold! (Laughs) 21 Sign reading Rock and Pop Memorabilia outside auction room STORYLINE John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for 'Give Peace A Chance', and various other pop and rock memorabilia went under the hammer in London on Thursday The piece of musical history was expected to fetch between 200- and 300-thousand British pounds (395,539 - 593,309 US dollars), but sold at 350 thousand British pounds (692,194 US dollars) The framed lyrics were sold by Gail Renard, who was with Lennon the moment the Beatles icon scribbled them down on a piece of paper in a hotel suite in Montreal during John and Yoko Ono's historic Bed-In for Peace in 1969 The lyrics - to become part of Give Peace A Chance - were supposed to used for a recording session of that song later on the evening of 1 June but shortly before the recording, Lennon asked Renard to rewrite them in larger print so that everybody participating could see them Renard kept the original, and because of that, is now 350-thousand pounds richer Speaking to AP Television after the auction, a happy Renard recalled being uncertain whether her personal memorabilia would do well at auction I panicked yesterday, because I didn't think it would sell, she said Renard added that if it hadn't she would have savoured the memories: I had the greatest time in the world and met some splendid people While the Lennon lyrics were expected to fetch the highest price, it was another Beatles item that claimed the record: A drumskin used by the Fab Four on the front cover of their 1967 album 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', fetched 450-thousand pounds (889,964 US dollars) The drum skin smashed Christie's estimate by selling for nearly five times as the anticipated price of 100 - 150-thousand pounds (197,769 - 296,654 US dollars) Other items that went on sale were a pair of prescription sunglasses worn by Lennon, a Marshall amp used by Jimi Hendrix for concerts in the late 1960s, a rare poster advertising pioneering punk band The Sex Pistols and a 1974 Rickenbacker guitar belonging to Paul Weller