POP & ROCK

Ex-Beatles drummer Ringo Starr halted the auction of a 1965 bass drum bearing the famous British rock group’s logo because of a wrangle over its ownership. The drum was expected to fetch $50,000 in a rock memorabilia sale at Sotheby’s auction house in London Monday. The auction catalogue said the drum was given to George Peckham, who worked in the group’s Apple Recording studios. But a spokesman for Starr’s lawyers, Frere Cholmeley, said Starr won a court order late Friday preventing Peckham or Sotheby’s from selling the drum. Auctioneer Hilary Kay said she learned of the court order just minutes before the auction began. Cholmeley said Starr would agree to the sale going ahead only if the proceeds went to a children’s hospital in London.