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
And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.
Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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.