Ringo Starr is drumming up some digital dollars with his NFT collection.

Julien’s Auctions recently announced it is kicking off an exclusive auction offering one-of-a-kind digital works of art with its accompanying signed canvas prints created by the artist, making him the first member of the Fab Four to do so.

The auction, "Ringo Starr NFT Collection – The Creative Mind of a Beatle," will take place Monday, June 13. A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Lotus Foundation, which supports charitable projects "aimed at advancing social welfare in diverse areas," including cancer, homelessness and animals in need, among others.

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George Harrison surrounded his son Dhani with loads of music when he was growing up. He never pushed his son to follow in his footsteps, but keeping him away from it all was hard. George had a recording studio in the family home, Friar Park, and many rock stars and musicians came and went. Bob Dylan or Jeff Lynne could pop through the door at any one time. Despite not pushing music on his son or showing him what his days as Beatle George were like, Dhani found his own way to music. However, sometimes, George had to school his son on certain artists.When Dhani was growing up, he formed his own music taste without the help of his father or any of his famous friends. It just so happens that he enjoyed the artists that inspired George. According to Rolling Stone, Dhani fell in love with The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” after hearing it in the 1985 Michael J. Fox film Teen Wolf.

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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (released 5/26/67) may not be the Beatles’ best album, but it’s certainly the most famous. The reverberations arising from its release continue even today, over a half-century after the album came out and while (over?) much has been made of every element of the title from its cover to its production to its concept, it is perhaps most noteworthy for representing the logical and perhaps inevitable extension of the four Liverpudlians’ utterly confident creative mindset from the very outset of their career to that point.

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At Wake Forest University’s Truist Field, the May 21 stop on his highly-anticipated 13-city “GOT BACK” Tour, Paul McCartney got back to where he belongs: on-stage to a crowd of nearly 32,000 adoring fans. Charisma reverberated across the audience, for whom McCartney paid tribute and bestowed gratitude through the evening — clocking 36 songs over roughly 2.5 hours of nonstop hits and story time banter.

Mixing material throughout the ages, “Can’t Buy Me Love” kicked things off with a Beatles-Wings sandwich: “Junior’s Farm” and “Letting Go,” followed by “Got to Get You Into My Life;” chased with the McCartney single, “Come On to Me,” before Wings’ “Let Me Roll It” meshed with a “Foxy Lady” jam amongst memories of Jimi Hendrix’s response to Sgt. Pepper.

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The Beatles' popularity did not impress a film director - and it made John Lennon unhappy.

The Beatles released hit songs that everyone loved - and still loves - even though years have already passed. However, while they were making their first-ever big-screen movie, the band suffered a major blow after a film director rejected one of their songs.

In the mid-1960s, the hit band decided to create feature films after releasing albums and having tours around the globe. Their first project was 1964, "A Hard Day's Night."

The film focused on the behind-the-scenes featuring the Fab Four before their TV appearance.

As part of the movie, a film director asked them to write and record the film's music. Lennon, for his part, made The Beatles' song "I'll Cry Instead."

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The pair last met in the place where John would ultimately be killed

The story of The Beatles is equally one of tragedy as it is one of musical brilliance.

The world reeled as John Lennon was gunned down on a New York balcony in 1980 at the age of 40. Tragically, members of the band were not on the best of terms when this took place, leaving heaps of regret in the hearts of Paul, George, and Ringo.

George Harrison died in 2001 after a battle with lung cancer, aged just 58. The lead guitarist of the Fab Four shared some of his thoughts on his former bandmate in the decades after John's untimely death.

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