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Ringo Starr facts: Beatles drummer's age, wife, children, net worth and songs revealed

John Lennon, 1980
All We Are Saying, David Sheff

The early years

Ringo was born Richard Starkey on 7 July 1940, at 9 Madryn Street in the Dingle area of Liverpool.

His mother Elsie (née Gleave) had been born on 19 October 1914.

Starr also on John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and with George Harrison on his solo album All Things Must Pass . She married Richard Starkey Senior, on 24 October 1936, and they separated in September 1943 when the young Ritchie was 3 years old.

Elsie remarried Harry Graves (born 1913) on 17 April 1953. By 1998 the All-Starr band was in its fourth incarnation.

From time to time the other members of the Beatles joined Starr on his LP recordings. Lukather performed Toto classic “Rosanna” to a standing “O,” Page provided a show highlight by nailing Mr. Mister’s “Kyrie,” and yes, the man himself had more highlights than Rundgren had in his hair.

Starr really had the audience channeling those Ed Sullivan glory days by playing “Don’t Pass Me By” back-to-back with “Yellow Submarine.” As the evening progressed, other hits were played including classic “Black Magic Woman” (Rolie), timeless 80s jam “Africa” (Toto), and Mr.

Mister’s chart-topping “Broken Wings.” But, who are we kidding? The window quickly rolls down, and it’s Ringo Starr himself. After a stint as an apprentice carpenter, Starr, who played drums as a child, acquired a new drum kit and found work as a professional drummer. unassuming, with sad blue eyes ... Graves got on well with Richard and encouraged the boy’s passion for music.

A sickly child, Starkey spent long stretches in hospital.

His childhood was filled with an endless series of setbacks and tragedies. Ringo never!” at the Cavern, and fights broke out.

However, Starr didn’t play drums on The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do. Martin brought session drummer Andy White in for the session, relegating Starr to tambourine on ‘Love Me Do’, and maracas on its b-side ‘PS I Love You’.

As Ian MacDonald noted, “Starr would, during fills, come off the snare onto the tom-toms with his left hand leading so that he could only progress ‘backwards’ from floor tom to small tom or from small tom to snare.

His droll variations on this, including rolling off the hi-hat, delighted orthodox drummers and added to the newness of The Beatles’ sound.

Ian MacDonald
Revolution In The Head

Examples of his characteristic fills can be found on ‘A Day In The Life’, ‘Hey Jude’, and the ‘Paperback Writer’ b-side ‘Rain’ – which Starr considers to be his best drumming.

‘Ringoisms’ – expressions coined by Starr and adopted by the band – were used by John Lennon for the titles of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’.

He also dabbled in film direction with Born to Boogie , the story of T. Rex singer, Marc Bolan.

Starr's first solo album, Sentimental Journey , was released in 1970, and as the name implies, it was a Tin Pan Alley collection. [but he] was fun-loving and uncomplicated and got along well with everyone in the group." When Beatlemania exploded throughout the world in 1963, Starr, along with his Beatle bandmates, achieved instant fame; and for Starr, the sickly boy from the dockside Dingle tenement, the recognition brought particular gratification.

As drummer for the Beatles, Starr rarely took over the microphone, and he almost never sang in the background.