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Rare pressing of Beatles' White Album sells for $790,000

Posted December 05, 2015 6:00 am

The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A rare pressing of the Beatles' White Album from Ringo Starr's record collection has sold at auction for $790,000.

Julien's Auctions says an anonymous buyer made the purchase Saturday at a sale in Beverly Hills, California. The mono pressing was the very first in the United Kingdom of the 1968 album.

The auction house said the White Album sale smashed a record set in 2015, when Elvis Presley's first acetate recording sold at auction for $300,000. It followed a sale on Friday of one of Starr's early drum kits for $2.2 million to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.

The two-day auction included over 800 items owned by Starr and his wife, actress Barbara Bach. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the couple's Lotus Children Foundation.

This photo provided on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, shows a drum kit that Ringo Starr used to record some of the Beatles' early hits, sold for $2.2 million at an auction to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. (AP Photo/Caroline Galloway) The Associated Press

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