Lennon lyrics may be worth millions

NEW YORK – John Lennon read the news 39 years ago and, oh boy, it inspired two pages of hand-written lyrics expected to fetch up to $2 million at auction.

The legendary Beatle’s original manuscript to “A Day in the Life,” which he wrote Jan. 17, 1967, while reading the London Daily Mail, was put up for bid Tuesday by the Bonhams auction house in New York.

Martin Gammon of Bonhams said the pages written by Lennon using three different pens could be the “most valuable musical manuscript composed in the 20th century to be offered at auction.”

“Based on market history, we believe somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million,” Gammon said.

Reading the London Daily Mail on Jan. 17, 1967, Lennon ripped the now famous lyrics from the headlines.

“I was reading the paper one day and noticed two stories,” Lennon once said in an interview. “One was about the Guinness heir who killed himself in a car. On the next page was a story about four thousand potholes in the streets of Blackburn, Lancashire, that needed to be filled.”

Bonhams said the sealed bidding process will close March 7.