Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr Will Auction Rare Memorabilia

There is some new Beatle music in the air. Ringo Starr, the last, iconic drummer, is planning to auction off over 800 items from his personal collection of rock and roll memorabilia, according to the Associated Press. The collection was specially curated by Starr and his wife, former Bond girl Barbara Bach.

"We have so much stuff and a lot of it we haven't seen in 20 to 30 years," Starr, 75, said. "It started with me looking at storage units we have all around the world it seems. ... We found we had so much stuff."

Some of the proceeds are planned to be given to Starr and Bach's Lotus Children Foundation, which will focus on global social welfare issues.

The idea came to his mind when The Grammy Museum requested that he give some items for an exhibition about their lives, running from 2013-14, according to the AP. Another "nostalgia project" was a book and one more exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

He planned to show prints from old negatives that Starr discovered in boxes from the 1960s and later.

The items listed include his iconic 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black pearl three-piece drum set, which featured some of their most classic numbers such as "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

Now the kit is planned to be sold for an estimated $300,000-$500,000 when it hits the auction block.

One more item that belonged to the Beatles' musical equipment is the 1964 325FG Rose-Morris Rickenbacker model guitar, also called the "Beatle-Backer." It belonged to John Lennon, but had been given to Ringo Starr in a 1964 Christmas show. It will be sold for $600,000-$800,000, according to Broadway World.

The auction is slated to be organised on Dec. 4-5 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, according to hngn.