![]() His most successful UK single was " Back Off Boogaloo", which peaked at number two. 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". In addition to the Beatles' films, Starr has acted in numerous others. After achieving moderate success in the UK and Hamburg, he quit the Hurricanes when he was asked to join the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best. When the Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. 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. Soon afterwards, Starr became interested in the UK skiffle craze and developed a fervent admiration for the genre. He briefly held a position with British Rail before securing an apprenticeship as a machinist at a Liverpool school equipment manufacturer. Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, with periods of prolonged hospitalisation. He also wrote and sang the Beatles songs " Don't Pass Me By" and " Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of four others. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including " Yellow Submarine" and " With a Little Help from My Friends". Sir Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. ![]() Octopus’s Garden may not put Ringo into the songwriters hall of fame, but his drumming helped to shape countless Beatles classics, bringing personality and life to them.From the BBC programme Front Row, 31 December 2008 He didn’t write the songs and he wasn’t a studio genius like producer George Martin, who helped to mould Lennon, McCartney and Harrison’s tunes into something spectacular. His drumming here is not complicated but – as numerous live versions of the song attest – it is lethally exact with not a note out of place, giving the lie to the notion, repeated by John Lennon in a 1980 Playboy interview, that Ringo was “not technically good” as a drummer.Īnother criticism of Ringo is that he wasn’t a creative god like the other Beatles. On Can’t Buy Me Love, Ringo’s drumming is the primal force that drives the song’s hormonal energy, all whipcrack snare and floor-tom bombast, wrapped up in Ringo’s signature sound: a wall-of-sound hi-hat thrash that sounds like five drummers at once. Ringo’s brief introductory tom roll is the shot of adrenaline that gets the heart of the song thumping it is teen mania in sound, and one of the most important drum rolls in recorded music history. Take She Loves You, the song that kicked off Beatlemania. These are beats designed to enhance the song rather than show off the drummer’s abilities. What this means is that many of Ringo’s best performances go unnoticed. ![]() “Is it someone that’s technically proficient? Or is it someone that sits in the song with their own feel? Ringo was the king of feel.” “Define ‘best drummer in the world’,” Dave Grohl said in a tribute video for Starr’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame presentation. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
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