Colts owner Jim Irsay pays $2.2 million for Ringo Starr drum set

A drum kit Ringo Starr used to record some of the Beatles' earliest hits was sold for $2.2 million at auction in Beverly Hills to Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. 

Julien's Auctions said Irsay bought the three-piece 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl kit on Friday during a two-day auction involving more than 800 items owned by Starr and his wife, actress Barbara Bach.

Starr used the kit in more than 200 performances between May 1963 and February 1964 and was used on such iconic recordings including Can't Buy Me Love, She Loves You, All My Loving and I Want to Hold Your Hand.

The auction, which includes items like instruments and career memorabilia, concludes Saturday.

Also for sale is a guitar used by John Lennon, which the late Beatle gave to Starr.

"[We] thought... we've got lots of furniture, we've got lots of cutlery... and I thought let's make it really crazy and special... like John's guitar,' Starr said at a party on Tuesday night ahead of the auction.

"It's been played twice," he added.

Last month, Julien's Auctions sold a drum head from a kit Starr played on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 for $2.1 million.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the couple's Lotus Children Foundation, which focuses on global social welfare issues.

So if you hear someone banging out It Don't Come Easy from the owner's box at Lucas Oil Stadium, you'll know who it is.

Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills sets disabled skiing speed record

Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills was singing Yeah, Yeah, Yeah after the former Mrs. Beatle set a new world record for a disabled female skier. 

Mills, who lost the lower half of her left leg and crushed her pelvis after she was knocked down by a police motorcycle in 1993, set the new speed record last week in the Alpine resort of Vars.

The 47-year-old Mills told Hello! Magazine she was "amazingly proud" after she jetted down the French mountain slope at 103.6mph.

CNN @heatherofficial speed ski record @cnni @Channel4 http://t.co/RVyHvNU1RO
— Heather Mills (@heatherofficial) March 31, 2015

"It’s a rare man who can give you the same thrill that going down a mountain at more than 100mph can," said Mills, who married Sir Paul in 2002 and was divorced from the former Beatle in 2008.

But that was so yesterday.

Now she is looking forward to competing in the Paralympics in South Korea in 2018. 

"I’ll be 50 then," she said. "But that won’t stop me."

Hey. Paul was still going strong at sixty-four.