'Pet Sounds' LP Signed By McCartney, 'Sgt. Pepper' Signed By Wilson In Online Auction

10/14/2002 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong

(10/14/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- An original copy of the Beach Boys' seminal Pet Sounds album autographed by Paul McCartney and a copy of the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band signed by Brian Wilson represent one of three lots offered in an online auction on Wilson's website.

At rehearsals for a recent benefit concert, both Wilson and McCartney, longtime fans of each other's work, performed the other's songs for the very first time. McCartney joined Wilson on "God Only Knows" and Wilson lent vocals to "Let It Be." The two then signed each other's album covers--McCartney's inscription acknowledges that Pet Sounds is his favorite album of all time, while Wilson signed Sgt. Pepper's with an inscription indicating his everlasting love for that record.

To some music enthusiasts, 1966's Pet Sounds and 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are two of the greatest albums ever recorded. The two autographed album covers, set in a glass case with a picture of Wilson and McCartney with arms around one another, was up for grabs to the highest bidder online at brianwilson.com/auction.

The auction lots also included two individual McCartney solo albums, Ram and McCartney, each autographed by McCartney.

The online auction closed Sunday (October 13), with the top bids for each of the items qualifying for a final live auction. At press time, the high bid for the autographed set of Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's albums was $8,500, while Ram was at $850 and McCartney at $750.

The money from the auction will be donated to the Curtis School in Los Angeles, where Brian and Melinda Wilson's daughter Daria, 5, is a student.

-- Sue Falco, New York

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