Beatles "Segregation" Papers Sold For $23k
The documents showed that the band wouldn\'t play shows with a segregated audience
A contract for a show in California in 1965 which shows how the band legally requested that all of their shows be non-segregated went to auction yesterday and sold for more than four times its estimated value.
The document, which also contains the usual band requests and their rider, shows that the band also wanted "no less than 150 uniformed police officers for protection" and a "special drumming platform for Ringo Starr".
At the time, The Beatles' trailer was also required to have access to "electricity and water", while "four cots, mirrors, an ice cooler, portable TV set and clean towels" were to be present in their dressing rooms.
The contract, signed by the band's manager Brian Epstein, was expected to sell for around $5000 at an auction in LA yesterday but it eventually sold for $23,000, reports the NME.