Rare red 2.5 x 3 backstage pass for the Great Pop Prom show at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 15, 1963, signed and inscribed on the reverse in blue ballpoint, "To Jill, love from, John Lennon, xx," "George Harrison," "Paul McCartney," and "Ringo Starr, xxx." In fine condition, with a small square hole touching only one of the "x"s beneath Lennon's signature.
A month before they entered the studio to record Rubber Soul, the Beatles headlined the Great Pop Prom, a Sunday afternoon show at London's Royal Albert Hall. Among the 11 supporting acts scheduled to play were the Rolling Stones, a glory-bound group poised to earn their first number one on the Billboard 200 album chart with the release of Out of Our Heads on September 24, 1965. The Beatles later joined the Stones for a photo session behind the Royal Albert Hall, with the Great Pop Prom representing one of only a handful of times the two groups performed at the same show. McCartney was later quoted about the experience: 'Standing up on those steps behind the Albert Hall in our new gear, the smart trousers, the rolled collar. Up there with the Rolling Stones we were thinking, 'This is it - London! The Albert Hall!' We felt like gods!' Accompanied by full letters of authenticity from REAL and noted Beatles expert Frank Caiazzo, with the latter reading, in part: "This is one of very few backstage passes signed by The Beatles which has surfaced in the collectibles market over the past 30 years."
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