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
It would have been nice if we could have come a bit earlier, but I tell you it's better late than never,
I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.
Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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.
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.
So this is America. They must be out of their minds."" -Ringo Starr circa 1964, arriving in America for the first time.
are deeply shocked that this incident occurred. We send George and Olivia all our love and wish George a speedy recovery.
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.