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
are deeply shocked that this incident occurred. We send George and Olivia all our love and wish George a speedy recovery.
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.
Peace and love, peace and love!
I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things. ...But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them. ...My soul is that of a drummer....It came to where I had to make a decision -- I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.
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.
No, I've got my band, and he's got his. It's never going to happen. We're both doing other things now.
It took us a week and we turned it into something and it's really beautiful.
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,'
After college, I went to London to record with Jimmy Webb on a project,
So we went in and we did the album in twelve hours... because we did everything we'd been doing on the road for the last year or so, you know.
So this is America. They must be out of their minds." -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.