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Friday, 21 September, 2001, 11:25 GMT 12:25 UK
Sex Pistols souvenirs fetch high prices
![]() The group signed with A&M Records at Buckingham Palace
Sex Pistols memorabilia fetched unexpectedly high prices at Sotheby's auction on Thursday, with singer Johnny Rotten's "anarchy" shirt being sold for £3,995.
The punk rock group have now entered the big league for memorabilia sales, alongside 60s greats like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. A concert poster for the their "Punk Special" gig at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, London fetched £3,055, more than twice its pre-sale estimate.
The restaurant chain Hard Rock Cafe purchased many of the top lots, including a three-page letter from George Harrison to one-time Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, dated 1960. Unpublished photos In the letter, which fetched £8,225, Harrison urges Sutcliffe to return to Liverpool from Hamburg as the band had secured a series of gigs.
The Hard Rock Cafe also bought a set of unpublished photographs of the Beatles dating from the mid-1960s for £5,875 - which it says it will display in the chain's new hotels in the US. The desirability of Beatles items at auction is well-known, but the auction house expressed surprise at the prices reached by the Sex Pistols collection. Stephen Maycock of Sotheby's said: "I had good feedback about the Sex Pistols-related pieces but the results were much better than I expected." One fan from Coventry successfully bid for a copy of the withdrawn single God Save the Queen for £2,820 - against a pre-sale estimate of £1,800. He said that the purchase enabled him to complete his set of all the Sex Pistols singles released in England.
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