


Utilizing this kit to its extent, Starr used this kit for more than 200 performances. Ringo Starrs playing on Let It Be and Abbey Road are revered by fans for containing some of the band’s most inventive and enduring performances.

Paul McCartney, a fellow Beatle, used the set to record his debut solo album, McCartney, in 1970. Only five of the custom kits are known to exist. Starr’s 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl three-piece drum kit, used in the recording of “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You” and other classics from that era, sold for $2.2 million Friday. Ringo Starr’s drum kit, the Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl, which he utilized in the early days of the Beatles, was the beginning of his fantastic career. A seven-tom drum kit inspired by drummer Hal Blaine and commissioned for Ringo by Harrison in 1968. “We didn’t think, ‘We’ll keep it for 50 years and it will be in pristine condition.’ Whoever gets it, it will have my fingerprints on it.” The copies of The White Album were numbered in sequence, ensuring that whoever purchased Starr’s copy would have the first printing produced of the album. “We used to play the vinyl in those days,” Starr previously told Rolling Stone of his copy of the band’s classic 1968 LP. Starr’s White Album carried a pre- auction estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, a number that was easily shattered during bidding. Even when he did something complex, it still felt simple. With Bonham, it was the way he could distill so many styles and make them sound straightforward. Ringo Starr‘s personal copy of the Beatles‘ The White Album, numbered No.0000001, sold for a world record $790,000 Saturday at the Julien’s Live auction of instruments and items from Starr and wife Barbara Bach’s estate. John Bonham looms large for Wagner, who began playing drums in middle school, but so does Ringo Starr. Ringo Starr bought a Ludwig kit on joining The Beatles because he liked the black oyster pearl colour and was so proud to have an imported drum kit from the.
