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My Take
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.
Overview
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He sometimes sang lead vocals on the group's recordings, usually for one song on each album; these include "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help from My Friends".
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ringo Starr
- Name (Japanese)
- リンゴ・スター
- Reading
- りんご・すたー
- Born
- July 7, 1940 (age 85)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Dragon
- Origin
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / drummer / composer / voice actor / singer-songwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
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
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.