White Album 000001 sells for $790000

09 December, 2015 - 0 Comments

Ringo Starr has pocketed an extra $AUD1,076,288 after selling his personal copy of The Beatles "The Beatles" aka "The White Album" at auction. There's a trend towards downsizing when we get older. When the albums were initially manufactured the numbering was sequential so the buyer actually has the first copy of that classic recording every made. It was part of an extensive auction for Starr and wife Barbara Bach. The kit was used to record some of The Beatles" earliest tracks, including "Can't Buy Me Love", "She Loves You", "All My Loving" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand'. A drum kit played by Beatle Ringo Starr on some of the Fab Four's greatest hits has been snapped up at auction by the owner of the Indianapolis Colts NFL team for an eye watering $2.2m (£1.4m). The Colts owner and rock memorabilia enthusiasts previously purchased high-profile instruments like Bob Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival guitar, John Lennon's 1966 "Paperback Writer" Gretsch guitar and Les Paul's "Black Beauty." This is the second auction in a month that Julien's, an auction house which focuses specifically on celebrity memorabilia, are holding in order to sell items once owned by the Beatles. When the same model Patek Philippe was auctioned in November 2012, it drew a closing bid of $136,000.

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