2025 Autograph Live Beatles Band-Signed Album Census

Autograph Live's first Band-Signed Beatles Album Census was in 2011.

Our second was in 2016. (A few were added to it since then.)

It's 2025—time to update it!

Let's add what we know has been discovered since 2016, and make sure nothing was missed or duplicated in the 2011 and 2016 ones. 

We'll start a separate price census too.

Once we're comfortable with the information we have, we'll formalize the census so collectors and dealers worldwide cab make better decisions on Beatles album sales and purchases.

These are the results of the 2016 census:

US Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

  • 0 “Introducing the Beatles”
  • 6-7 “Meet the Beatles”
  • 2 “Help”
  • 1 “Beatles 65”
  • 1 “Beatles VI”
  • 0 “Rubber Soul”
  • 2 “Revolver”
  • 0 “Magical Mystery Tour”
  • 0 “Abbey Road” +1 offered by Autographs for Sale on eBay starting Mar. 16, 2019
  • 0 “Yellow Submarine”
  • 3 “White Album”
  • 1 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
  • 0 “Let it Be”

17 US Albums Known 

UK Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

  • Roughly 75 “Please Please Me” (Their first album, signed in three 1963 UK promotional tours)
  • 17-22 “With the Beatles” (The tail end of their easier accessibility)
  • 8-10 “Hard Day’s Night”
  • 3 “Beatles for Sale”
  • 2 “Help”
  • 2 “Rubber Soul”
  • 1 “Revolver”
  • 6 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
  • 0 “Magical Mystery Tour” (All reissues from the 1980s and up.)
  • 2 “White Album”
  • 0 “Yellow Submarine”
  • 2 “Abbey Road”
  • 0 “Let it Be”

Roughly 113-120 UK Albums Known

Let's go!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 11, 2025 at 3:08pm
Permalink Reply by Ryan on March 10, 2025 at 2:07pm

There’s a MMT that was on RR auctions like 6-9months ago. Signed in pencil at the masquerade party in dec 67

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin To Ryan on March 18, 2025 at 10:36am

Thanks, Ryan! That's a double EP, not an album, but it definitely belongs in the EP census if it's not there already.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348719607047002-beatl...

Permalink Reply by Mark Saunders To Ryan on March 12, 2025 at 5:14pm

Rad. 

Permalink Reply by rickmaster on March 17, 2025 at 6:37pm

John Lennon autographed a Let It Be LP cover for a fan in May 1975 at the WFIL "Helping Hands Marathon." In the early 1990s, George Harrison signed a separate album; Ringo Starr's signature was added to that one on June 4, 2006, in Toronto.The resulting cover with three signatures was then made complete when Paul McCartney signed it on July 15, 2010.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin To rickmaster on March 17, 2025 at 8:52pm

Julien's sold one for about $50,000. Is this one that Heritage sold?

Permalink Reply by rickmaster To Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 17, 2025 at 10:14pm

Yes, I remember it selling for $32,500 back in 2014.

Permalink Reply by a pug called eva To rickmaster on March 17, 2025 at 11:07pm

rickmaster, perhaps it's too early in the day here I don't get the part about the George. You say that he signed a separate album but I assume he signed the one Lennon signed as you also say that the album had three signatures before Paul signed it. Am I right? 

Permalink Reply by rickmaster To a pug called eva on March 18, 2025 at 4:17am

In short, the restorer put the pieces together.

Permalink Reply by a pug called eva To rickmaster on March 18, 2025 at 7:31am

Thanks rickmaster. Would someone really want to pay $50k, or even $32.5k,  for something like that? To my mind it is not a fully signed album. Speaking personally, I would pay much more for the two separate albums than the single album manufactured by the restorer. In fact, I wouldn't even want the latter unless I could sell it on immediately for a fat profit.

I have a Hard Day's Night window card with Paul, George and Ringo's autographs. I would never dream of grafting on an autograph of John's. 

Permalink Reply by Tommy Byron To a pug called eva on March 18, 2025 at 10:32am

Back in the 2000's someone bought a yellow sheet of paper signed by all four back in 1967 and had a restoration expert graft them on to a Sgt. Pepper gatefold cover and they looked like they had originally been signed on the cover. I think it sold for 10-15K.

It was advertised as a 'poor mans version' of a fully signed Sgt. Peppers hehe. Actually I think it was advertised as an affordable alternative to a 75-100K real one.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin To Tommy Byron on March 18, 2025 at 7:01pm

That's a good description.

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