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.
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.
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
No, I've got my band, and he's got his. It's never going to happen. We're both doing other things now.