Rare Beatles lyrics unsold at auction

LONDON - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" valued at 200,000 pounds ($353,396) failed to sell at a London auction Wednesday. The first draft of the song was written on the back of a telephone bill, the BBC reported. A spokeswoman for Christie's, which conducted the auction, said she was "surprised and disappointed" the lyrics failed to sell. An unheard inter- view with Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, during their "Bed- in for Peace" protest in 1969 went for 18,000 pounds ($31,800), the BBC said. Other items up for bid included George Harrison's banjo, Freddie Mercury's catsuit and an acoustic guitar given to Noel Gallagher by Sony Records in 1995 to mark the success of Oasis' second album.