His parents, both bakery workers, divorced when he was a small child. Starkey was born in a working-class area of Liverpool. Ringo Starr, byname of Sir Richard Starkey, (born July 7, 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England), British musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who was the drummer for the Beatles, one of the most influential bands in rock history. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.From tech to household and wellness products. Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.
Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog. Here, Starr and The Roundheads perform “Octopus’s Garden” in 2005 View the entire comment thread. Here, Starr and The Roundheads perform “Octopus’s Garden” in 2005 Starr is left-handed, but became ambidextrous as a child when his grandmother forced him to write with his right hand because she thought it was a curse for people to be left-handed. He is a vegetarian whose diet is limited due to ongoing stomach problems related to his childhood illnesses. Since 1989, Starr has toured with more than a dozen variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Conductor" during the first season of the PBS children's television series, Shining Time Station. He has been featured in a number of documentaries, hosted television shows, narrated the first two seasons of the children's television series, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, and portrayed "Mr. After their break-up in 1970, he released several successful singles and albums and recorded with each of the former Beatles. Starr played key roles in the Beatles' films and appeared in numerous others. When the Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another leading Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.Īfter achieving moderate success with them in the UK and Hamburg, Germany, he quit the Hurricanes and joined the Beatles in August, 1962, replacing Pete Best. They got several prestigious local bookings before the fad succumbed to American rock and roll by early 1958. In 1957, he co-founded his first band, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group. Soon after, he became interested in the UK skiffle craze - developing a fervent admiration for the genre.
He then entered the workforce and briefly held a position with British Rail before securing an apprenticeship at a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. But in 1953, he contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where he remained for two years. After several years of twice weekly tutoring, he had nearly caught up to his peers academically. His classmates nicknamed him "Lazarus" after a twelve-month recovery from peritonitis following a routine appendectomy.Īt age eight, he had remained illiterate. Starr was twice afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during his childhood, and as a result of prolonged hospitalizations, fell behind scholastically. He is also credited as a co-writer of "What Goes On," "Flying" and "Dig It," and as the sole author of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden." He sang lead vocals on several Beatles’ songs, including "With a Little Help from My Friends," "Yellow Submarine" and their version of "Act Naturally." An English musician, singer and actor, Starr was the drummer for the Beatles.
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