A 1971 letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono addressed to Linda and Paul McCartney containing hand-written insults such as: 'Get off your high horse' and 'Who do you think we/you are?' is up for auction.
Lennon’s letter was written in reply to correspondence sent by Linda, which caused Lennon to speculate as to “what middle aged cranky Beatle fan wrote it.”
The Beatles broke up in 1970 and Linda’s letter reportedly took issue with Lennon for not openly announcing that he was leaving the iconic group.
Yoko Ono, John Lennon and Paul McCartney at the premiere of Yellow Submarine, July 1968
Lennon was also sensitive about the reception given to Yoko Ono by McCartney and others. “I hope you realise what s*** you and the rest of my ‘kind and unselfish’ friends laid on Yoko and me, since we’ve been together,” he wrote.
The letter, which contains a number of further barbed criticisms, is up for auction in Boston and is expected to fetch at least $20,000 (€18,700),
“It was likely written shortly before Lennon and Ono’s departure for America," said RR Auction's Robert Livingston. "The draft captures the intense rivalry between the two men in the months, and even years, surrounding the break-up of the Beatles."
A letter which Lennon penned to the Queen Elizabeth when he returned his MBE was recently discovered in a record sleeve and valued at £60,000 (almost €70,000).
