<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eeffd7ff-b6d2-4d56-a95b-72ff03a3d7ee/8D50C8BE-7B79-42DF-B96B-FEC3323EC6DE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html" href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html">The Beatles' first contract has been removed from lock and key to be shown off to fans who are being offered the chance to win the document.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html"><P id="ynw-article-part2">A competition has been launched in which contestants pay to guess the value of the contract, with the winner keeping the highly prized document.</P><P>The fab four's prospective manager, Brian Epstein, offered to sign the band after watching them perform in Liverpool's Cavern Club.</P><P>John Lennon, George Harrison, <A href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fc/mccartneys.html">Paul McCartney</A> and Ringo Starr signed the contract in 196</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html"><P>The contract bears a mistake where Lennon wrote his name in the wrong part and it was also signed by some band members' parents, due to their young ages.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html"><P>Epstein spotted the band in the Cavern in 1961 and the contract was signed the following year. The group catapulted up the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html"><P>The contract has only changed hands a couple of times over the decades and was acquired for The Imagine Corporation at Christie's auction house.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090702/ten-first-beatles-contract-up-for-grabs-5f8abb3.html">It is currently insured for £500,000</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8D50C8BE-7B79-42DF-B96B-FEC3323EC6DE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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