Yellow Submarine - Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr MBE (born Richard Starkey 7 July 1940 - ) Richard Starkey was born on 7 July 1940, at 9 Madryn Street, Dingle, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of confectioners Elsie (née Gleave) and Richard Starkey. Elsie enjoyed singing and dancing, a hobby she shared with her husband, an avid swing fan. Before the birth of their son, whom they nicknamed "Ritchie", the couple had spent much of their free time on the local ballroom circuit, but soon after his birth, their regular outings ended. In 1944, in an effort to reduce their housing costs, his family moved to another neighbourhood in the Dingle, 10 Admiral Grove; soon afterwards, his parents separated, and they divorced within the year. At age six, Starkey developed appendicitis. Following a routine appendectomy, he contracted peritonitis, causing him to fall into a coma that lasted for three days. His recovery spanned twelve months, which he spent away from his family at Liverpool's Myrtle Street Children's Hospital. Upon his discharge in May 1948, his mother allowed him to stay home, causing him to miss school. At age eight, he remained illiterate and had a poor grasp of mathematics. After several years of twice-weekly tutoring from his surrogate sister and neighbour, Marie Maguire Crawford, Starkey had nearly caught up to his peers academically. Still, in 1953, he contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where he remained for two years. During his stay, the medical staff made an effort to stimulate motor activity and relieve boredom by encouraging their patients to join the hospital band, leading to his first exposure to a percussion instrument: a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed. Soon afterwards, he grew increasingly interested in drumming, receiving a copy of the Alyn Ainsworth song "Bedtime for Drums" as a convalescence gift from Crawford. As a result of the prolonged hospitalisations, he fell behind his peers scholastically and was ineligible for the Eleven-Plus qualifying examination required for attendance at a grammar school. On 17 April 1953, Starkey's mother married Harry Graves, an ex-Londoner who had moved to Liverpool. An impassioned fan of big band music and its vocalists, Graves introduced Starkey to recordings by Dinah Shore, Sarah Vaughn, and Billy Daniels. Graves stated that he and "Ritchie" never had an unpleasant exchange between them; Starkey later commented: "He was great ... I learned gentleness from Harry." After the extended hospital stay following Starkey's recovery from tuberculosis, he did not return to school, preferring instead to stay at home and listen to music while playing along by beating biscuit tins with sticks.
In mid-1956, Graves secured Starkey a position as an apprentice machinist at a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. While working at the facility, Starkey befriended Roy Trafford, and the two bonded over their shared interest in music. Trafford introduced him to skiffle, and he quickly became a fervent admirer. The two began rehearsing songs in the manufacturing plant's cellar during their lunch breaks. The pair were joined by Starkey's neighbour and co-worker, the guitarist Eddie Miles, forming the Eddie Miles Band, later renamed Eddie Clayton and the Clayton Squares after a Liverpool landmark. The band performed popular skiffle songs such as "Rock Island Line" and "Walking Cane", with Starkey raking a thimble across a washboard to create primitive, driving rhythms. On Christmas Day 1957, Graves gave Starkey a second-hand drum kit consisting of a snare drum, bass drum, and a makeshift cymbal fashioned from an old rubbish bin lid. Although basic and crude, the kit facilitated his progression as a musician and increased the commercial potential of the Eddie Clayton band, which went on to book several prestigious local gigs before the skiffle craze faded in early 1958, as American rock and roll became popular in the UK. In November 1959, Starkey joined Al Caldwell's Texans, a skiffle group who were looking for someone with a proper drum kit so that the group could transition from one of Liverpool's best-known skiffle acts to a full-fledged rock and roll band. The band had begun playing local clubs as the Raging Texans, then Jet Storm and the Raging Texans, before settling on Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, soon before recruiting Starkey. About this time, Starkey adopted the stage name Ringo Starr, derived from the rings he wore and also because it implied a country western influence. His drum solos were billed as Starr Time. By early 1960, the Hurricanes had become one of Liverpool's leading bands. The Hurricanes became so successful that when initially offered a highly coveted residency in Hamburg, they turned it down. They eventually accepted, joining the Beatles at Bruno Koschmider's Kaiserkeller on 1 October 1960, where Starr first met the band. Storm's Hurricanes received top billing over the Beatles, who also received less pay. Starr performed with the Beatles during a few stand-in engagements in Hamburg. On 15 October 1960, he drummed with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, recording with them for the first time while backing Hurricanes singer Lu Walters on the George Gershwin aria "Summertime". During Starr's first stay in Hamburg, he also met Tony Sheridan, who valued his drumming abilities to the point of asking Starr to leave the Hurricanes and join his band. On 14 August 1962, Lennon asked Starr to join the Beatles, and he accepted. On 16 August, Beatles manager Brian Epstein fired their drummer, Pete Best, who recalled: "He said 'I've got some bad news for you. The boys want you out and Ringo in ... He said [Beatles producer] George Martin wasn't too pleased with my playing [and] the boys thought I didn't fit in." Starr first performed as a member of the band on 18 August 1962.
Starr played key roles in the Beatles' films and appeared in numerous others. After their breakup in 1970, he released several successful singles, including the US number four hit "It Don't Come Easy", and the US number ones "Photograph" and "You're Sixteen". He achieved commercial and critical success with his 1973 album Ringo, which reached the top ten in both the UK and the US. Although he continued to record and remained a familiar celebrity presence, by 1975 his solo career had diminished in importance. He has been featured in several documentaries, hosted television shows, narrated the first two seasons of the children's television series Thomas & Friends, and portrayed "Mr Conductor" during the first season of the PBS children's television series Shining Time Station. Since 1989, he has successfully toured with twelve variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
When Starr married Maureen Tigrett in 1965, Epstein served as best man with Starr's stepfather, Harry Graves, and Harrison as witnesses. Starr and Tigrett had three children together: Zak (born 13 September 1965), Jason (born 19 August 1967), and Lee (born 11 November 1970). In 1971, Starr purchased Lennon's former home, Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, Berkshire, and moved his family there. Following Starr's repeated infidelities, the couple divorced in 1975. Tigrett died from leukemia in 1994. In 1980, while on the set of the film Caveman, Starr met actress Barbara Bach: they were married on 27 April 1981. In 1985, he was the first of the Beatles to become a grandfather upon the birth of Zak's daughter, Tatia Jayne Starkey. Zak Starkey is also a drummer, and during his father's regular absences, he spent time with the Who's Keith Moon. Zak has performed with his father during some All-Starr Band tours. Starr and Bach own homes in Cranleigh, Surrey; Los Angeles; and Monte Carlo.
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SVANY A 30° 21.352′ J 82° 30.271′
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