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
I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
I've been making a CD, so I have lots of ideas, ... (The action) will be set around a band. They'll be their own characters. It'll be a very strange All-Starr Band.
It would have been nice if we could have come a bit earlier, but I tell you it's better late than never,
The whole quote was, 'Let's hear it for the vertical man, because so much praise is given to the horizontal one,'
That was a great time. I was in my 20s, had lots of energy. I have great memories of it.
We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.