Davinia Taylor of Hollyoaks fame has recently donated a notebook that contained the handwritten lyrics of ‘Hey Jude’ by Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney to a museum.
The memorabilia was given to Taylor by Alan Murphy, her dad during a heated Sotheby’s auction. Murphy was bidding against an American and said that the notebook ‘is not going to America’ and ‘it’s staying in Liverpool’.
The pad originally belonged to Mal Evans, The Beatles’ former bodyguard before it went to auction. Murphy bought the notepad for approximately £100,000, which contained poetry and doodles from the other band members, including Sir Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon. Aside from the handwritten lyrics of ‘Hey Jude’, it also had snippets of other tracks such as ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.
The Beatles memorabilia is now housed in the Liverpool Beatles’ Story Museum, where it was appraised and insured for a million pounds.
