Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE, known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine" and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of others, including "What Goes On" and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth7 July 1940
CityLiverpool, England
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.
They said do what you want, because if we don't like it, no-one will hear it.