Documents that offer information on the dissolution of Beatles were sold at auction for £9,000.

The typed copies of the documents, which are over 300 pages long, were bought by a private collector at an online auction.

They were drawn up by the Beatles’ advisers and legal representatives and were discovered in a cupboard, where they had been stored since the 1970s, according to Dawsons Auctioneers.

The pages include copies of Beatles counsel meeting minutes, legal documents and a copy of the band’s original 1967 partnership deed.

There were also bundles of documents linked to the High Court legal case brought by Sir Paul McCartney against the other three Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison and Sir Ringo Starr, and Apple Corps to resolve management restrictions imposed on band in 1970.

Sir Paul McCartney had disagreed with the appointment of Allen Klein as their manager after the death of Brian Epstein in 1967.

Also in 1970, Paul McCartney announced that he had “no future plans to record or perform with the Beatles again or to write any more music with John”.

The transcripts of the hearings document the difficulties faced by lawyers representing both parties as the Beatles’ complex cases unfolded and detail many questions raised by the legal teams during numerous meetings, such as when Pete Best left the band and joined Ringo Starr and how they would manage the growing tensions and disputes between the Beatles over the film rights and clips used for ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Magical Mystery Tour’.

The documents were sold in an entertainment industry memorabilia auction organized by the auction house.