Ringo Starr‘s first pressing of the White Album, which he put up for sale in aid of his wife Barbara Bach’s Lotus Foundation last year, is the most expensive record ever sold at auction, reports Billboard.
The 2017 edition of the Guinness World Records has apparently made the declaration after the LP, with the catalogue number 0000001, was bought at Julien’s Auction in December 2015 for $790,000 – far in access of an Elvis Presley acetate which sold for $305,000 and previously held the record.
The Beatles‘ 1968 self-titled album was nearly the last for Ringo, tired as he was with the inter-band politics which were driving the Fab Four ever closer to their split, and also with his own perceived reduced role in the sessions.
He was persuaded to return very soon after, and arrived back at Abbey Road to find the studio, and his drumkit, decked out in flowers.
