Ringo Starr’s personal copy of “White Album” sells for record $790000

Until recently it was thought Lennon was given the first copy of The White Album, however it was revealed that Starr had his hands on the “0000001” copy of the band’s ninth studio album.

An anonymous buyer has completed this transaction at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills, said the auction firm Julien’s.

The sale price for Starr’s kit far exceeded the pre-auction estimate of $300,000 to $500,000 and makes it the most expensive drum set ever sold at auction.

Another buyer, Colts owner Jim Irsay, bought Ringo’s 1963 Ludwig Oyster Pearl drum-kit, the one used on more than 100 Beatles recordings and played in concert by Ringo himself.

This photo provided on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, shows a drum kit that…

Ringo Starr’s copy of the Beatles” “The White Album’ has been sold at auction. “It will have my fingerprints on it”, he told Rolling Stone.

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.

“Finally, after 45 years, the Beatles are together again”, Irsay said in a text message to The Associated Press. Other items that were sold during the bidding include a Rickenbacker guitar, which Starr received from the late John Lennon.

Some of the proceeds will go to The Lotus Foundation, which was founded by Starr and Bach to fund and promote charitable projects, the auction house said.