Ringo Starr

I will defend Ringo Starr's drumming to anyone who calls him merely lucky. His feel — those slightly behind-the-beat fills, the left-handed quirks on a right-handed kit — is the secret pulse of the Beatles' catalog. What I admire even more is the temperament: surrounded by three towering songwriters, he never sulked or competed, just served the song and occasionally charmed the world with a lead vocal. That he is still drumming past eighty, knighted in 2018, feels like a reward for decades of good humor. To me, Ringo proves that reliability and warmth are their own form of genius.

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Name (English)

Ringo Starr

Name (Japanese)

リンゴ・スター

Reading

りんご・すたー

Born

July 7, 1940 (age 86)

Origin

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / drummer / composer / voice actor / singer-songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Awards & achievements

• 1965 Member of the Order of the British Empire
• 1971 Academy Award for Best Original Score
• 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• 2018 Knight Bachelor
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2022 honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music

• Official sitehttps://www.ringostarr.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ringostarrmusic/
• Xhttps://x.com/ringostarrmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo%20Starr
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632

Tags

• actor
• drummer
• composer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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