MONEY can't buy you love insisted John Lennon, but bidders at a Cotswold auction proved that it can buy you Beatles collectables.

A large collection of Beatles ephemera made over £7,000 when it was sold by Moore Allen & Innocent in Cirencester.

The collection, which included books, posters, china plates, drinks mats, guitars, pin badges, fridge magnets and even a gift box of men's socks and a telephone that sang Yeah, Yeah, Yeah at an incoming call, was amassed by a single collector over a half century.

Battling at out for first place in the top seller charts were a child's copy of a Rickenbacker guitar after the original used by John Lennon, which made £540, while Mr Wonderful by Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple by Deep Purple, Volume IV by Black Sabbath and a host of other vinyl records by bands from the 1960s and 70s combined in a single lot, went for the same price.

A collection of 35 LPs, covering most of the Beatles back catalogue, as well as some live recordings and compilations, made £370. A limited edition of Ringo Starr's Postcards from the Boys, featuring an album of facsimile postcards sent by John, Paul and George to Ringo, presented in a red postal box case, made £320.