A Day in the Life: extended version

Further to the previous post. Drifting semi-aimlessly around the web -- going somewhere else, looking for something else -- can produce some interesting results. In this case, the discovery that John Lennon not only wrote A Day in the Life on 17 January 1967, but that a couple of days ago (17 January 2006) the song's lyric sheets were placed for auction. According to Bonhams, the auctioneers:

There is general agreement among music critics that one of the most outstanding accomplishments within the Beatles songbook is A Day In The Life, the Lennon/McCartney collaboration inspired the morning of January 17, 1967 as John Lennon read the Daily Mail. As the final track on the multi-platinum-selling album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in June of 1967 and considered one of Rock’s first and best concept albums, the work was voted “Best British Song” this past October in London's Q magazine by music critics who called the track "the ultimate sonic rendition of what it means to be British.”

Erh... Discuss.
Anyway, for the full auction sale's pitch: Bonhams
Which includes a measly-sized facsimile of the lyric sheets. Lennon wrote the lyrics firstly in lowercase then copied them out in uppercase, for readable facsimiles: Beatles Bad Handwroter (sic) Archive