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.

It was sold for £541,250 – four times the estimate – at a sale of rock memorabilia held at Christie’s in London.

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.

And an empty champagne bottle with the Beatles’ signatures on the label fetched £7,500.

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.

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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