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Sir Ringo Starr is the drummer in The Beatles, the biggest thing to ever come from Liverpool. The band made millions for their megahits in the UK and across the world. However, Sir Ringo has always been a little bit more mysterious than the other band members, especially with regards his name.
What is Sir Ringo Starr’s real name?
Sir Ringo Starr was, unsurprisingly to many, not born with that name.
Instead, he was born Richard Starkey, the only child of confectioners Richard Starkey and Elsie Gleave.
Like his bandmates, he is from Liverpool, though he was born in the Dingle area of the inner city.
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It was 56 years ago when Sergeant Pepper didn't teach the band to play, instead three of four Beatles landed in the early hours of a Darwin morning ahead of their imminent Australian Tour.
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Several hundred Beatles' fans gathered at Darwin airport in the early hours of the morning. Only a hand full of journalists had the opportunity to meet John, Paul, George and touring drummer Jimmie. The biggest band in the world was gracious, even after 30 hours of flights.
Ren Kelly, a Darwin-based disc jockey at a local commercial radio station and now Alice Springs' resident, heard rumours that the most popular band in the world at the time would be landing in the Northern Territory.
"I had a friend who was working as head of the tourist office up there, who had been talking with the Qantas staff … and he had tipped me off and said 'if I can get you an interview, would you like to?'" Mr Kelly said.
Source: abc.net.au
While the media loved pitting The Beatles against the Rolling Stones, the members of the two bands were very friendly with one another in the ’60s. If you attended the “happening” that was the orchestra recording session for “A Day in the Life” (1967), you’d have found Mick Jagger there.
During that same period, Stones founder Brian Jones contributed a saxophone part on the Beatles’ madcap B-side “You Know My Name (Look up the Number).” But the friendships dated back to long before the ’67 “Summer of Love.”
In 1963, as the Fab Four was rapidly gaining fame in the UK, the Stones were still hungry and largely unknown. So when Andrew Loog Oldham brought John Lennon and Paul McCartney to a Stones rehearsal, Jagger and his group accepted a song (“I Wanna Be Your Man”) the pair were offering.
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The footage from the Let It Be sessions leaves no question as to the band’s gear choices during that time. George Harrison is often seen playing his custom-made rosewood Fender Telecaster (serial number 235594), which he later gave to Delaney Bramlett, and “Lucy,” the 1957 Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar (refinished to cherry red) given to him by Eric Clapton and famously seen in the Revolution promo film.
John Lennon is rarely seen without his stripped-down Epiphone Casino. Paul McCartney uses his 1963 Hofner 500/1 exclusively, although he can be seen playing his 1961 500/1 at Twickenham Film Studios (that model was stolen soon after filming - read on for the full story…), while his Rickenbacker 4001S was also present, but only as a backup.
Source: By Chris Corfield/guitarworld.com
Paul McCartney fiercely criticized the Italian live-music industry over its refund policy for his canceled 2020 concerts in a Facebook post that has apparently been deleted. McCartney was scheduled to perform in the Italian cities of Naples and Lucca this week but canceled the shows early last month due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In line with the policy of Assomusica, the official Italian promoters’ association, fans were offered vouchers but not refunds, prompting outrage online and a fiery statement from McCartney.
“It is outrageous that those who have paid for their tickets are not getting their money back. Without the fans there would be no live entertainment,” reads the statement, which was written in Italian and posted on McCartney’s official Facebook page before being deleted. “We strongly disagree with what the Italian government are doing. In every other country we were going to visit this summer the fans have all been offered full refunds. The organiser of our shows and the Italian law makers must do the right thing here. We are all extremely disappointed the shows could not take place and this is a real insult to the fans.”
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When The Beatles parted ways in 1970, there was no shortage of bands vying to take the Fab Four’s place. Leading candidates included The Who, The Rolling Stones, and the upstart hard-rock outfit Led Zeppelin. And while Zep as a band was new, the group included a few old hands.
The list began with Jimmy Page, an ace session guitarist who’d played with both Stones and Who — and led the last stand of The Yardbirds. Page had brought in John Paul Jones, another familiar face on the London scene. Along with Robert Plant and John Bonham, Zep had its own version of a “fab four.”
For the remainder of the ’70s, Led Zeppelin enjoyed a level of commercial success that only The Beatles had tasted. But Page, who also served as Zep’s primary songwriter and record producer, never took the band’s success for granted.
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There seems little that can’t be sorted in life over a catch up and a cuppa. Angie McCartney, widow of Sir Paul’s late dad Jim would certainly agree with that – especially in lockdown life today.
She may have swapped her Merseyside roots and the commercial world of Littlewoods for the glamour of the Hollywood Hills where she’s had a host of top media jobs, but Angie McCartney still starts each day with a ‘nice cup of tea’.
In the ‘70s Angie, now 90, even started her own organic tea business – Mrs McCartney’s Tea – which is still going strong.
Source: theguideliverpool.com
In case peoples are searching for enthusiasts of The Beatles, you’re going to discover them in any age gathering, race, and nationality. What’s more, in the event that you ask Fab Four fans how they tune in to the band’s music, people will see they stream and tune in to the first vinyl just as CDs, tapes, and perhaps 8-tracks.
Yet, regardless of which kind of Beatles fan you meet, you generally appear to locate the regular old discussions. Did John Lennon defeat Paul McCartney in the songwriting office? Or then again was “Quiet Beatle” George Harrison the band’s distinct advantage? Possibly it was not one or the other — they’d take Ringo over the rest.
Those contentions are ageless, and they’ve continued into the spilling period, where more youthful fans make up the mass (however not the entirety) of the crowd. Furthermore, in the most recent check it was an exemplary tune by George that outwitted the Lennon-McCartney songbook.
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Ringo Starr has spoken out about the wave of Black Lives Matter protests around the world, saying he is sending “peace, love and continuous support” to them.
The Beatles drummer referenced his bandmate Paul McCartney’s own message, which was shared yesterday (June 5), in his tweet.
“As my brother Paul said The Beatles always stood for equal rights&justice and I’ve never stopped working for peace&love ever since,” he wrote. “I send my peace love&continuous support to everyone marching & speaking up for justice & a better world.” See the post below.
McCartney’s message called on fans to “learn more, listen more, talk more, educate ourselves and, above all, take action”. He also reflected on a Beatles show in Jacksonville in 1964 that was meant to have a segregated audience and the band’s response when they found out.
Source: nme.com
Many pop stars, from Elvis Presley to Mariah Carey, have tried their hand at being film stars. The Beatles stand out from the pack because they made multiple films often considered classics. A Hard Day’s Night and Yellow Submarine are often considered two of the best films of the 1960s.
Of course, not every Beatles movie was universally acclaimed. John Lennon had some very strong criticisms for some of the Beatles’ films. In fact, he said one of the Beatles films managed to infuriate the Fab Four.
In 1971, Jann S. Wenner famously interviewed John for Rolling Stone. The lengthy interview would become the most well-known of John’s career. It was even published as a book called Lennon Remembers. In the exchange, John mostly discussed music but he also shared his opinions on certain films.
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