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Ringo Starr
Liverpool, England, UK
Richard Starkey MBE (born July 7, 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer…
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Richard Starkey MBE (born July 7, 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart. Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.
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2027
High in the Clouds
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2026
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
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2026
Man on the Run
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2026
Evolver 62
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2025
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
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2025
A Love Letter to the Beatles
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2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
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2025
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
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2025
TWST / Things We Said Today
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2025
The Beatles
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2025
Ringo & Friends at the Ryman
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- 2024
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2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
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2024
Beatles '64
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2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
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2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
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2024
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
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2024
The Beatles LOVE
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2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
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2024
The Beach Boys
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2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
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2023
The Beatles and the BBC
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2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
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2023
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
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2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
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2023
Louder Than Rock
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2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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2022
Let There Be Drums!
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2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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2022
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
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2022
If These Walls Could Sing
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2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them
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2022
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
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2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
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2022
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
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2022
Rat Pack
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2021
The Beatles: Get Back
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