WORKING CLASS HAIRDO

Christmas is fast approaching and if you’'e looking for an ideal present for a loved one (or that special ghoul in your life) why not place a bid for an actual lock of John Lennon’s hair? Because it’s a bit weird, perhaps?

Betty Glasgow, the stylist on the Beatles movies, has at last put her prized possession on the market given to her in the mid-sixties by the Beatle. The lock of hair (which may still contain some grease and arrogance) is expected to raise between two and three thousand pounds at auction.

"My job was to keep their hair in order as the film was made over three months,” said Grisly Betty, “So their trademark, mop-top haircuts had to be regularly trimmed."

That’s three months of hair from four Beatles that Betty has mouldering away in an old suitcase somewhere, the odd old witch. It’s a good job she hasn’t been tempted to flood the market, or we’d be up to out knees in McCartney’s pubes.

Lennon’s lock makes up just one part of the sale of the ‘Betty Glasgow Collection of Beatles and Film Memorabilia’ to be auctioned on December 12th, so if you’re after an original Ringo kidney stone or a pair of underpants in which George Harrison suffered night sweats, get yourselves to the auction house. Then to a psychiatrist.