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 Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 7:57am

Beatles Second Album signed in black sharpie (circa 1969?) by all four BeatlesDSCN1472.jpeg

Permalink Reply by JK on June 8, 2025 at 8:07am

The rare "Rimgo" signature...

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on June 8, 2025 at 8:36am

Not authentic.

Permalink Reply by Trazom1 on June 8, 2025 at 8:38am

Bob: none of those are genuine

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 10:56am

Thanks, I appreciate your opinion. 

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 11:03am

Thank you, if they are not authentic I want to know.  I can't do them this good! LOL  I met John Lennon at the Helping Hand Marathon and he signed several items for me, right in front of me and a few "experts" told me they were fake.  It's an opinion, that's all. 

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on June 8, 2025 at 1:44pm

Also not real. Bob, the ones you've posted are clearcut forgeries IMO. I'm sorry you've been taken like that.

Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on June 9, 2025 at 5:48pm

No Thanks...

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 8:02am

Beatles Second Album purchased at DOORS member Ray Manzarek's estate sale, the LP is signed by three members of The Beatles Paul, George and Ringo verbal testimony states that this LP was signed during the Real Love recording sessions DSCN1467.jpeg 

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on June 8, 2025 at 8:36am

Not authentic.

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 11:01am

I understand , I thought the same thing but are forgers that good to use a ball point pen and get the autographs looking so right? Supposedly, the LP can be traced back to Mal Evans estate sale?  If it  is a forgery they are very good in my opinion! 

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 8, 2025 at 11:06am

It is a poor forgery  - it bears only a passing resemblance. Using a ballpoint is not "advanced" - it is expected.

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