America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.
I didn't go any further than acid.
I didn't think it was revolutionary - It just was a great band to be in, and it was a good time playing in that band.
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
My father sort of decided to leave when I was three so it was just my mother and I.
People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
So we went in and we did the album in twelve hours... because we did everything we'd been doing on the road for the last year or so, you know.
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.
Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
Ringo means "Apple" in Japanese. In the late 80s, Ringo did an apple juice commercial in Japan.
Ringo is the oldest Beatle, but came in the latest. In a way, he is the oldest and the youngest!
Ringo has been credited as Richard Starkey MBE.
Ringo was the only Beatle to willingly accept Yoko Ono in John`s life (and consequently theirs) ; he offered them the use of his London apartment, while John and his ex-wife settled their divorce. Yoko tried to return Ringo`s kindness over the years, and years later, when John was murdered, Ringo and future wife Barbara Bach flew to New York, to keep Yoko company.
Ringo bought John Lennon`s last English home from him when John and Yoko moved to America.
A single of his, "The No-No Song", was a song against drug abuse. But in a darkly ironic note, the song was banned by several radio stations because of drug references.
Born and grew up in the Dingles section of Liverpool, England.
Though McCartney is the most succesful ex-Beatle, Ringo actually had more solo US Top ten hits. (McCartney performed most of his Top Tens with Wings)
Ringo has been married twice.
Ringo developed pleurisy at age thirteen, and was hospitalized for two years.
Ringo has two tattoos, one on each arm.
Ringo tours with his group, "Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band".
Ringo missed several years of school due to illness. He learned to read and write with the help of a neighbor girl, who became his babysitter.
Ringo owns property in several countries, he retains British citizenship.
Ringo received his first set of drums as a gift from his stepfather when he was a teenager.
Ringo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beatles on January 20, 1988.
Ringo and Maureen have 3 children.
Ringo replaced Pete Best as The Beatles' drummer.
Ringo was the drummer for The Beatles.
Ringo resides in Monaco.
Ringo loves Western movies.
Ringo's first job was as a delivery boy.
Ringo is left handed; although, he plays the drums and the guitar right handed.
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