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Help. Live Aid '86: signed by Paul McCartney, David Bowie, George Michael, Elton John, Phil Collins, ect. Real?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on October 29, 2023 at 6:12pm

The McCartney looks like a known forgery style.

Permalink Reply by Please Delete on October 29, 2023 at 6:27pm

Thank you, BallroomDays67!
I'm not a pro on McCartney, but I also noticed that he looks too 'sloppy'. I believe that McCartney's signature and Paula Yates's autograph (on the top) were made by same hand and the same ink.

To me it seems that a part of these autographs is probably real and then somebody tried to add "new" signatures on it.

p.s. Could anybody say more about Phil Collins, Elton John autographs (they're both in the right bottom)?

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on October 29, 2023 at 6:39pm

Here’s another Live Aid piece that I believe is from the same forger:

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 29, 2023 at 6:45pm

Paul, Brian May, and Bowie off, ( as in the OP). from what I know.

Permalink Reply by Please Delete on October 29, 2023 at 6:51pm

Hello Eric,

Are you talking about the postcard or the calendar I posted?

P.S. seems like it doesn't matter, if all these stuff are faked...

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 29, 2023 at 6:58pm

The Bowie in your image HORMuseum.

Permalink Reply by Please Delete on October 29, 2023 at 7:23pm

Thanks, Eric!

Permalink Reply by Please Delete on October 29, 2023 at 6:46pm

Wow! Thanks for research. Do you believe that all of these signatures were faked? No one real?

I checked the sales history on the Adam Partridge auction -- there are dozens of the similar McCartney signatures (like on the calendar, I attached one of them). However, I saw at least one probably authentic the Beatles set (imho).

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on October 29, 2023 at 6:56pm

No problem. I’m not familiar with all of them, but the McCartney is fake in my opinion. The one on the Beatles For Sale LP does look like it’s from the same forger.

Permalink Reply by Please Delete on October 29, 2023 at 7:05pm

Thanks again! Yes, it's definitely the same forgery style (that's why I posted it). Just curious is there any authentic signatures on the calendar. Hope that other members could help me with it.

Here's a link on this faked LP (unbelievable, it was sold for only 95 GBP... with an estimate: 60-80 GBP ha-ha): https://live.adampartridge.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/287/lo...

Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on October 29, 2023 at 11:31pm

This auction house is defintely to be avoided unless you really know what you're doing. I presume they do occasionally have genuine autographs but the vast majority are fake in my view - and judging by the realised prices by most other people too.

Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on October 29, 2023 at 11:46pm

Adam Partridge is a total shitehawk. He’s a regular “expert” on antiques shows, on U.K. television, yet his own auction house is a constant stream of forged autographs. And all with the same disclaimer, distancing himself from the mass deception that he facilitates. I wouldn’t touch anything that has been through his hands with a ten foot barge pole.

This calendar is dreadful. The Bowie is so unlike any authentic example I’ve ever seen that I had to do a double take to check I was looking at what is supposed to be his signature.

The Bryan Ferry, on the left-hand side, is another forgery. Bryan’s signature has been highly consistent down the years, yet there’s a weird slant to this one that is atypical.

Without looking into the signatures I don’t know so well, I’m confident in saying this is total garbage.