Ringo Starr’s drum kit fetches £1.4m at United States auction

But Colts owner Jim Irsay has taken his love for the legendary band to a different level.

He has reunited the Beatles, sort of.

A rare pressing of the Beatles’ White Album from Ringo Starr’s record collection has sold at auction for $790,000.

Jim Irsay already owned guitars from the group’s other three members – Sir Paul McCartney and the late George Harrison and John Lennon. He claimed that the purchase of the drum kit had brought The Beatles “together again” after 45 years.

Meanwhile, Irsay soon could be giving his head coach and/or G.M. the Pete Best treatment.

Also available is a guitar used by John Lennon – which he gave to Starr in 1968 – some of the drummer’s signature rings and his own copy of The Beatles’ White Album, marked as number 0000001.

Ringo Starr’s Beatles drum kit has sold for a staggering $2.1 million (£1.4 million) at auction.

Starr used the kit in more than 200 performances between May 1963 and February 1964.

According to Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien’s Auctions, the legendary kit has been out of the public eye for 50 years.

Irsay is a huge music fan and an avid collector. Proceeds from the sale go to the Lotus Foundation, which was founded by Starr and his wife, Barbara Bach.