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{{cquote|...to try to imagine the soul entering the womb of the woman living 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool 15: there were all the barrage balloons, and the Germans bombing Liverpool.|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine'', p.19-20|1980}}
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{{cquote|First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things.... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them.... My soul is that of a drummer.... It came to where I had to make a decision — I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.|Ringo Starr, ''The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers'' by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli|1984}}
  
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{{Cquote|I liked music since I can remember. I can remember ''One Meat Ball'', very early, ''Hong Kong Blues'', that's one of the first songs I can remember (I must have been about four) a real bluesy song. Those were happy times. I went out with my parents from when I was a baby and we went out a lot. I remember being at one place or another, dancing at the club or at old Mrs. Such and Such. I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool, singing "One Meat Ball."|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine'', p.28|1980}}
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{{Cquote|It took from four o'clock to five to get home in the evening to the outskirts of the Speke estate and it was on that bus journey that I met Paul McCartney, because he, being in the same school, had the same uniform and was going the same way as I was so I started hanging out with him. His mother was a midwife and he had a trumpet.|George Harrison, ''I Me Mine'', p.28|1980}}
 
  
  

Latest revision as of 13:44, 19 August 2011

Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr, 1st US Concert, Feb 1964
Ringo Starr, 1st US Concert, Feb 1964
Background information
Birth name Richard Starkey
Also known as Ringo Starr
Born 7 July 1940 (1940-07-07) (age 85)
Liverpool, England, UK
Genres Rock, pop, psychedelic rock, world
Occupations Musician, singer-songwriter, actor
Instruments Drums, vocals, percussion, keyboards, guitar
Years active 1957–present
Labels Parlophone, United Artists,
Capitol, Apple, Swan, Vee-Jay,
Tollie, Atlantic, RCA, Mercury, Koch,
Private Music, Boardwalk, Rykodisc
Associated acts The Beatles, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, Plastic Ono Band
Website RingoStarr.com
Notable instruments
Ludwig Super Classic Drumset
Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl Drumset
“ First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things.... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them.... My soul is that of a drummer.... It came to where I had to make a decision — I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life. „

—Ringo Starr, The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli, 1984


Boy Ringo.


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