Radio store Employee wipes off set of Beatles signatures

[oryxandcrake]

In last Saturday´s edition of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, a man named Thomas Sessler writes about his memories from 1963 when he was working at a large radio and tv dealership in Stockholm. One night, a relatively unknown pop group from Liverpool was scheduled to open for Lill-Babs (Famous Swedish female singer from the era) at Gröna Lund amusement park. A technician from the park called the store and asked if the band could borrow a tv for their boring hotel room. So they took a tv from their warehouse and deliered to the band´s hotel.

After a successful, televised performance the portable tv, a German made Grundig, was returned and the four band members had written their signatures on the wooden part on one side of the tv. So the store made a nice display with a guitar, some posters and the autographed tv set in the middle.

Some weeks later, it appeared that the band´s star was fading and it was also time to change the store´s window display. So Mr. Sessler took some denaturated alcohol, wiped off all four signatures and the set was like new and could be sold at full price.

When the four guys returned to Sweden the following year, they had become the world´s most famous pop band. And over the years, Mr. Sessler´s children have often reminded him that his contribution to pop music history was wiping off a set of Beatles autographs from a tv. "One can only speculate how much that would have been worth now", he writes......