Two
report
cards
that
speak
of
the
bad
schooldays
behaviour
of
ex-Beatle
John
Lennon,
punished
with
detention
for
"fighting
in
class" and
"sabotage"
when
he
was
15
years
old,
were
knocked
down
at
auction
for
$13,804
each,
TracksAuction.com
reported
Monday.
The
British
online
auction,
which
rebroadcast
the
final
bidding
on
its
website
this
Sunday,
sold
the
report
cards
for
more
than
double
the
amount
expected,
it
said.
The
disruptive
behaviour
of
the
composer,
nicknamed
the
"class
clown",
is
detailed
in
these
original
1955
documents
that
were
saved
from
a
mass
book
burning
in
1970
by
a
teacher
at
Quarry
Bank
High
School
in
Liverpool
where
the
singer
studied.
Famous
worldwide
for
such
all-time
hits
as
'Imagine',
Lennon
was
given
detention
as
often
as
three
times
a
day
for
"being
a
nuisance" in
the
classroom,
"shoving"
his
schoolmates
and
having
"just
no
interest
(in
class)
whatsoever",
the
school
reports
say.
One
of
the
two
report
cards
was
signed
between
May
19
and
June
23,
1955,
while
the
other
records
the
musician's
detentions
between
Nov
25
of
the
same
year
and
February
13,
1956.
Besides
this
evidence
of
the
composer's
unruly
youth
was
a
signed
copy
of
the
ninth
Beatles'
album
entitled
"The
White
Album",
for
the
colour
of
the
disc's
Pop
Art
cover,
which
went
under
the
hammer
for
$223,831.
At
the
same
time,
a
pair
cuff
links
Lennon
wore
once
his
schooldays
were
behind
him
went
for
$17,895.