$1 million for Sgt Pepper drum
The drum skin pictured on the iconic Beatles album cover 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' has sold at auction for £541,250 ($1m).
The figure is four times what it was expected to fetch at the sale at Christie's in London.
Featuring the name of the 1967 album the bass drumskin is hand-painted in gold, red, blue, green, pink and magenta and mounted on a matched rope tension wooden bass drum.
The buyer will also get a hand-written letter of authenticity from Sir Peter Blake who designed the famous Sargent Peppers album cover.
In the letter he says: "I have examined the painted drumskin that appears on the L.P. record 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club' by The Beatles, and that is the same drumskin, and is the genuine, original one painted by Joe Ephgrave."
Other Beatles memorabilia sold at Christie's yesterday were John Lennon's lyrics for Give Peace a Chance sold (£421,250) and a pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to Lennon (£39,650.)
Additional items at the rock memorabilia sale included, recordings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music Festival in July 1968 (£48,050) a Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert fetched (£25,000) and a 1967 Gibson guitar, formerly owned by Pete Townshend of the Who, sold for (£32,450.)
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