Million dollar drum!
The drum featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album was sold yesterday for an astonishing $1million.
A private collector snapped up the hand-painted bass drum, made famous by artist Sir Peter Blake, 75, who designed the cover of the 1967 album.[>
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It was sold for £541,250 – four times the estimate – at a sale of rock memorabilia held at Christie’s in London.[>
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The auction also saw a pair of glasses worn by John Lennon sell for £39,650, while his handwritten lyrics for classic song Give Peace A Chance were snapped up for £421,250.[>
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And an empty champagne bottle with the Beatles’ signatures on the label fetched £7,500. [>
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It was used as a prop in a 1967 promotional film for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields and picked up by a schoolboy visiting the set.[>
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Other rock souvenirs to go under the hammer included two guitars that survived the famous smashing sprees of The Who legend Pete Townshend, 63. [>
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The rocker’s cherry-red 1967 Gibson SG Special went for £32,450 and an acoustic guitar he used to compose Behind Blue Eyes fetched £13,750 for good cause the Alliance for Sustainability.[>
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A pair of flared trousers worn by the late Jimi Hendrix in 1967 fetched £20,000, while one of his 1966 Marshall amps was sold for £25,000.[>