Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey MBE is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He achieved international fame during the 1960s as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr’s playing style, which emphasised feel over technical virtuosity, influenced many drummers to reconsider their playing from a compositional perspective. In 1999, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers named him the fifth-greatest drummer of all time. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours.
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Sir Richard Starkey MBE is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He achieved international fame during the 1960s as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album. Starr’s playing style, which emphasised feel over technical virtuosity, influenced many drummers to reconsider their playing from a compositional perspective. In 1999, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers named him the fifth-greatest drummer of all time. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2018 he was cited as the wealthiest drummer in the world, with a net worth of USD 350 million. He has featured in numerous documentaries, hosted television shows, narrated the first two series of the children’s television programme Thomas & Friends and portrayed Mr. Conductor during the first season of the PBS children’s TV series Shining Time Station. His most successful UK single was \”Back Off Boogaloo\”, which peaked at number two. His 1973 album Ringo was a top-ten release in both the UK and the US. Starr has acted in numerous others, including the films The Beatles, The Beatles Movie and The Godfather: Part II. He is married to former Beatle Paul McCartney, with whom he has a son, George, and a daughter, Jodie. Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, with periods of prolonged hospitalisations. At the age of six, he developed appendicitis, causing him to fall into a coma that lasted twelve months.
He had a routine appendectomy in 1948, which allowed him to stay at his family’s home at Myrtle Street, Liverpool. His mother found it difficult to survive on her ex-husband’s support payments of thirty shillings a week, so she took on several jobs before securing a position as barmaid, an occupation that she held for twelve years. His father, Big Ritchie, lost interest in his family, choosing instead to spend long hours drinking and dancing in pubs, sometimes for several consecutive days. He later stated that he has no real memories of his father, who made little effort to bond with him as a child. His parents divorced within the year, and they later moved to another neighbourhood in the Dingle, Admiral Grove; soon afterwards his parents split up. He became interested in the UK skiffle craze and developed a fervent admiration for the genre. In 1957, he co-founded his first band, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, which earned several prestigious local bookings before the fad succumbed to American rock and roll around early 1958. When the Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He quit the Hurricanes when he was asked to join the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best. After the band’s break-up in 1970, he released several successful singles including the US top- ten hit \”It Don’t Come Easy\”, and number ones \”Photograph\” and \”You’re Sixteen\”.
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