Ringo Starr has pocketed an extra $AUD1,076,288 ($790,000 in U.S. Dollars) after selling his personal copy of The Beatles The Beatles aka The White Album at auction.
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The album was sold to an anonymous buyer and broke a sales record established in 2015, with the first acetate recording of Elvis Presley singing sold at auction for $300,000.
Julien’s Auctions said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay bought the drum kit, which has not been seen in public for more than 50 years, in an auction that ended on Saturday. Irsay is a “well-known Beatles fanatic”, reports The Rolling Stone Magazine on December 6.
In all, Starr netted $9.2 million from more than 1,300 pieces of memorabilia up for bid between him and his wife, Barbara Bach.
A Rickenbacker guitar once owned by John Lennon made $910,000 (£600,000).
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Other items sold at auction were George Harrison’s 1962 Gretsch Tennessean guitar, the back panel from Lennon’s psychedelic caravan featuring the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band logo and the La gold and onyx ring, which was worn for every single Beatles show. According to its website, “the objectives of the Lotus Foundation are to fund, support, participate in and promote charitable projects aimed at advancing social welfare in diverse areas including, but not limited to substance abuse, cerebral palsy, brain tumours, cancer, battered women and their children, homelessness, animals in need”.
