Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when someone realized ...
Ask Ringo Starr about his decades-long love affair with Ludwig drums. Go ahead; we did. You’re guaranteed to smile. What’s more, the Beatles drummer also gave two thumbs up (and playfully stuck out ...
“I don’t wish I’d played differently on any of them,” Starr explained. He then pointed out a rare Beatles on which he purposely approached playing drums in a different way. “‘Rain’ I played ...
Between summer 1968 and January ’69, relations between The Beatles hit an all-time low. During the making of the White Album, Ringo Starr registered his personal disgust with the situation by walking ...
Barry Keoghan finally got to meet Ringo Starr, who he is set to portray in the upcoming Beatles biopics, and the two “just sat in the garden chatting away” during the meeting. Keoghan appeared on ...
Though Barry Keoghan is a celeb himself, he was still feeling the nerves around Beatles legend, Ringo Starr. “I met him at his house, and he played the drums for me,” Keoghan explained to Kimmel.
The sound of the drums can inform the listener of a song’s age within the first few seconds of the track, and as Paul McCartney explained in a 2005 interview, the Beatles’ experimental drum tones were ...
Ringo Starr joined The Beatles significantly later than his bandmates, so he didn’t live through some of their earliest experiences as a group. He also wasn’t on all the songs they recorded, though ...