Beatles concert poster sets new world auction record at Heritage

1966 Beatles Shea Stadium concert poster, $275,000
1966 Beatles Shea Stadium concert poster, $275,000
1966 Beatles Shea Stadium concert poster, $275,000

DALLAS – The most iconic concert poster of all time is now the most expensive concert poster of all time. On April 16, during Heritage Auctions’ latest Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction, the stunning bright-yellow slab of cardboard promoting the Beatles’ August 23, 1966, concert at New York’s Shea Stadium sold for $275,000 to set a new auction record. That shatters the previous high-water mark of $150,000 shared by both the Shea Stadium poster (set in November) and another advertising Hank Williams’ two concerts scheduled for New Year’s Day 1953 at the Canton Memorial Auditorium in Ohio (established last May).

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Peerless psychedelic concert poster collection at Heritage, April 16

Grateful Dead 1966 ‘Skeleton & Roses’ concert poster, est. $60,000-$90,000. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Grateful Dead 1966 ‘Skeleton & Roses’ concert poster, est. $60,000-$90,000. Courtesy Heritage Auctions

DALLAS – To collectors of vintage rock posters, KC Murphy’s assemblage, available April 16 at Heritage Auctions‘s Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction, features only the very best of the very best – 40 extraordinarily valuable, vaunted and crisp keepsakes from the Bindweed Press, near-mint memories pulled from a family friend’s famed printing presses when Murphy was just a little girl living in the wilds of Sonoma County. Her historic collection contains the totemic, valuable vestiges of a bygone Bay Area once ruled by the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and their psychedelic brethren. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Grateful Dead concert posters headline May 15 Turner sale

Jimi Hendrix concert poster from 1968, estimated at $400-$600
Jimi Hendrix concert poster from 1968, estimated at $400-$600
Jimi Hendrix concert poster from 1968, estimated at $400-$600

SAN FRANCISCO – Turner Auctions + Appraisals will sell vintage posters from Bill Graham, Family Dog, Grateful Dead, and others on May 15 starting at 10:30 am Pacific time. The auction features more than 100 vintage rock posters from the 1960s to 2015. Most date to the 1960s and come from one Northern California collector who acquired them over the course of 40-plus years. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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