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 11:11am

 Once again, much appreciated.  

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on June 8, 2025 at 11:30am

Yes, these are actually lower quality forgeries that were offered with false provenance. They get much better than that. 

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on June 8, 2025 at 1:32pm

That looks like a felt tip, not ballpoint. 

In any case, I agree. They're not real IMO, but I've seen a lot worse.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 8, 2025 at 1:44pm

+1 "That looks like a felt tip, not ballpoint."

Permalink Reply by Tommy Byron on June 8, 2025 at 2:18pm

Agreed. An expert on Beatles autographs would spot them as phony in an instant, but a lay person collector trying to compare signatures for the first time could easily get fooled.

Permalink Reply by Tommy Byron on June 8, 2025 at 10:28am

It's an American Capitol album, so unless the sessions were in America, hard to see why that one would have been signed.

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 10:58am

Thank you, They sure look good. 

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 8, 2025 at 11:05am

Bob, I would not say these look good at all.

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 1:38pm

Thanks, Much appreciated

Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on June 9, 2025 at 5:49pm

Sorry Bob...not authentic...

Permalink Reply by Bob Del Buono on June 8, 2025 at 11:05am

I understand, thank you for letting me know. There are many fakers out there. Some better than others.  

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 8, 2025 at 11:08am

And thankfully some, like these, are bad enough to stand out like the proverbial sore thumb.

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