The jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's and was sold for £2,500 ($4,907) to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter.

[1][2] Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs, which had been catalogued in Lennon's handwriting.

[citation needed] As Midwinter's health began to deteriorate, he became anxious that a story of the jukebox and its music should feature in a documentary.

Eventually, The South Bank Show broadcast a documentary on the jukebox in 2004 in which many of the represented artists, along with Sting, were interviewed.

The 2004 compilation album named John Lennon's Jukebox contains 34 of the singles' A-sides and seven of their B-sides.