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The name “Starr” originates from his time playing with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, where he had his own featured slot called “Starr time.” 28. Ringo was named “Ringo” because he enjoyed wearing rings.

Ringo’s childhood hero was Gene Autrey, “Oklahoma’s Yodeling Cowboy.” 27. Ringo is the only ex-Beatle who hasn’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his solo career. Keith couldn’t afford to pay for the prank, so Ringo ended up covering the bill. On December 25, 1972, Keith Moon dressed up as Santa Claus and surprised Ringo and his former wife, Maureen Starkey, by arriving at their house on a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Fans chanted “Peter forever, Ringo never” and “Pete is Best.” Fights broke out, leaving George Harrison with a black eye. After replacing drummer Pete Best, Ringo’s first performance with The Beatles at the Cavern was met with scorn. On some Beatles’s tracks, it was Ringo’s idea to cover the tom-toms with dishcloths and blankets to produce the desired sound. The songs were “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen.” 22. In 1973, Ringo had two #1 hits in the USA off his album Ringo.

In his youth, Ringo worked as a barman on a ferry and delivery boy for British Rail.

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“It’s not the greatest movie in the world but I’ve seen worse,” said Ringo of the project. Ringo played the wizard Merlin in the musical-comedy Son of Dracula. For a time, Ringo lived as a tax exile in Monte Carlo, only allowed to live at his home in Los Angeles six months per year. Ringo had originally agreed to play another summer with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes for 20 pounds a week, but backed out when John Lennon and Paul McCartney offered him 25 pounds a week to play with them. On September 17, 1974, Ringo announced that over the next year he was going to campaign against young people taking drugs. When Yoko insisted that she only wanted to see Ringo, Ringo retorted: “Look, it was you who started all this. After John Lennon died, Ringo and his wife, Barbara, went to visit Yoko Ono. Ringo grew up watching around three Westerns every week.ġ5. He had beat her, but couldn’t remember anything from the night before. Ringo entered rehab after waking up one morning to find his wife Barbara Bach battered and bloody beside him. In 1980, officers at customs strip searched Ringo as he entered Mexico City to begin shooting the film Caveman. The owner fined the band ten shillings after they played “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” 12. One of Ringo’s earlier bands, Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, secured a booking at the Cavern, which was strictly a jazz club at the time, under the name the Jazzmen. Before dropping Ringo off at a friend or relative’s place for the day while she went to work, Ringo’s mother would always tuck in his shirt, shine his shoes, brush his hair, and make sure his clothes were clean. Muhammad Ali once said “My dog plays better drums!” in reference to Ringo’s musical abilities. As a child, Ringo was known as Little Richie, while his father, whom was also named Richard, was known as Big Richie. Ringo played the role of the Pope in the film Lisztomania, which starred The Who’s Roger Daltrey. Ringo was worried about losing his spot with The Beatles. On Ringo’s first day at the Abbey Road Studios, producer George Martin said he’d prefer using a session drummer and hired 32-year-old Andy White. At The Beatles’ record label, Apple Records, Ringo would sometimes get his receptionist to roll a joint of the best Afghan hash.

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His grandmother helped him become ambidextrous by teaching him how to write with his right hand as a schoolboy. Ringo was naturally left-handed, but played on a right-handed drum set.

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Conductor in the children’s TV series Thomas The Tank Engine.

In the mid-’80s, Ringo provided the voice for the narrator and Mr. As a schoolboy, other students would get Ringo to talk and then laugh at him because his sentences would often contain malapropisms, later known as “Ringoisms.” 3. Immediately after joining The Beatles in 1962, Ringo shaved off his beard and restyled his hair into a mop top.