The Beatles' handwritten 'Hey Jude' lyrics sell for £731,000

Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song 'Hey Jude' have sold at auction for £731,000 ($910,000), almost six times more than the £128,000 estimate, Independent reports. Three hundred items were on offer at Julien’s Auctions to mark the 50th anniversary of the band's split, and McCartney’s note was the biggest seller. Sir Paul wrote 'Hey Jude' to console the young Julian Lennon after the divorce of the boy's parents John and Cynthia, but changed the name to Jude because it sounded "a bit more country and western for me". A bass drumhead used in the opening concert of the Beatles' first North American tour fetched £161,000 ($200,000) at the same auction, four times its estimate. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "BAGISM" drawing, featured in the couple's 1969 'Bed In Peace' documentary as part of their protest against the Vietnam War, sold for £75,000 ($93,750).