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Ringo Starr found some Beatles ‘stuff’ lying around and he wants you to have it
It’s amazing how stuff can just pile up.
That’s what Ringo Starr thought last fall when he started looking through the storage units he and his wife own. The problem became even more apparent when Starr and his wife, Barbara Bach, decided to sell their country house in England and close down their apartment in Monte Carlo.
“We thought, ‘What are we going to do with all this stuff?'” Starr told the Associated Press. The answer: Get rid of it.
But, this being the former drummer for the Beatles we’re talking about, the offerings are something of a step up from those at your standard weekend garage sale. The hundreds of items of “stuff” Starr plans to purge include the three-piece drum kit Starr played in hundreds of performances, a Rickenbacker guitar known as the “Beatle-Backer” that John Lennon once owned and one of the original four pressings of the White Album, which Starr says he had locked in a bank vault for the past 3½ decades.
Those belongings, along with artwork, furniture, jewelry and a dinner service, will be sold at Julien’s Auctions in early December. The proceeds, which auctioneer Darren Julien estimated could range from $5 million to $10 million, will go to the Lotus Foundation, the charity founded by Starr and Bach.
“We’re fed up with having the stuff in storage when it could be put to some good use and also give a lot of people joy,” Starr told the AP.
Like any nostalgic couple, Starr and Bach had some trouble choosing what items to give away.
After opting to let go of certain items “we’d take them back,” Bach, a former model and actress, told the AP. “But then we’d say, ‘Where are we going to put it’ and realized it would have to go back in storage, so we said, ‘Okay, let’s put it back in the auction.'”
Here are a few of the 800 or so items that made the final cut:
Check Link for Pictured Items: Ringo Starr found some Beatles ‘stuff’ lying around and he wants you to have it - The Washington Post
It’s amazing how stuff can just pile up.
That’s what Ringo Starr thought last fall when he started looking through the storage units he and his wife own. The problem became even more apparent when Starr and his wife, Barbara Bach, decided to sell their country house in England and close down their apartment in Monte Carlo.
“We thought, ‘What are we going to do with all this stuff?'” Starr told the Associated Press. The answer: Get rid of it.
But, this being the former drummer for the Beatles we’re talking about, the offerings are something of a step up from those at your standard weekend garage sale. The hundreds of items of “stuff” Starr plans to purge include the three-piece drum kit Starr played in hundreds of performances, a Rickenbacker guitar known as the “Beatle-Backer” that John Lennon once owned and one of the original four pressings of the White Album, which Starr says he had locked in a bank vault for the past 3½ decades.
Those belongings, along with artwork, furniture, jewelry and a dinner service, will be sold at Julien’s Auctions in early December. The proceeds, which auctioneer Darren Julien estimated could range from $5 million to $10 million, will go to the Lotus Foundation, the charity founded by Starr and Bach.
“We’re fed up with having the stuff in storage when it could be put to some good use and also give a lot of people joy,” Starr told the AP.
Like any nostalgic couple, Starr and Bach had some trouble choosing what items to give away.
After opting to let go of certain items “we’d take them back,” Bach, a former model and actress, told the AP. “But then we’d say, ‘Where are we going to put it’ and realized it would have to go back in storage, so we said, ‘Okay, let’s put it back in the auction.'”
Here are a few of the 800 or so items that made the final cut:
Check Link for Pictured Items: Ringo Starr found some Beatles ‘stuff’ lying around and he wants you to have it - The Washington Post
