Birth date: July 7, 1940
Birth place: Liverpool, England
Birth name: Richard Starkey, Jr.
Father: Richard Starkey, Sr., bakery worker
Mother: Elsie (Gleave) Starkey, bakery worker
1- Ringo is a vegetarian, but more due to health reasons than ethical ones.
2-Although growing up Ringo never excelled at academics, he developed an aptitude for mechanics and could dismantle a car engine and put it back together without a problem.
3-Some of the Beatles's songs sung by Ringo, such as "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help from My Friends," were written by Lennon and McCartney specifically to feature Ringo's baritone voice.
4-In 2008, Ringo said he would no longer respond to fan mail or requests for autographs.
5- For his design company with Robin Cruikshank, Ringo made a doughnut-shaped fireplace and flower-shaped table with adjustable petal seats.
6- When Ringo was learning how to swim, he'd be fine until he realized he was in the deep end. At this point he'd yell and immediately get out of the pool.
7-The first time Ringo blacked out after consuming too much alcohol was at the age of nine.
8- Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band debuted in 1989 with a concert in Dallas, Texas.
9- In school, other students gave Ringo the nickname "Lazarus" most likely due to his frequent comings and goings from the hospital.
10- Ringo nearly lost several items of Beatles memorabilia that he stored in his attic when his house in Los Angeles caught fire. Within half-an-hour the fire department had put out the flames.
11-As a teenager, Ringo considered himself a Teddy Boy and hung out with a rough crowd that would make problems wherever they went, including movie theaters and dance halls.
12- Ringo was always considered the best of The Beatles when it came to acting, because he was the most natural on screen.
13- Ringo's son, Zak, played drums with The Who at the halftime show for Super Bowl XLIV.
14-In a word-association game Ringo once played, his reaction to the word "Christmas" was "happy times...food and drink...it doesn't mean anything religious to me."
15- On Christmas Day 1970, Ringo's friend and art designer, Robin Cruikshank, gave Ringo's first wife, Maureen Starkey, a few mercury filled dishes, which got Ringo interested in design. Ringo would go on to form a design company with Cruikshank, called Ringo O'Robin Ltd.
16- Ringo was the last member to record a Beatles' track when he entered Abbey Road Studios in 1970 to record parts for "Across The Universe," "The Long and Winding Road," and "I Me Mine."
17- Ringo appeared as director Laslo Karolny in the 1978 film, Sextette, which starred Mae West.
18- Ringo's first band, The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, was formed with four other employees at Henry Hunt and Sons in 1957, where he worked as a trainee joiner.
19- At the age of six, Ringo had an inflamed appendix, and eventually fell into a coma for two months. After we awoke he remained in the hospital for several more months.
20- The title of Ringo's single "Back Off Boogaloo" was derived from a dinner with Marc Bolan of the band T. Rex: "He was an energized guy," said Ringo. "He used to speak 'Back off Boogaloo... ooh you, boogaloo. Do you want some potatoes? Ooh you, boogaloo!'"
21- After his mother's divorce, she married a painter and decorator named Harry Graves, whom Ringo referred to as his "step ladder."
22- Ringo's childhood hero was Gene Autrey, "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy."
23- Ringo was named "Ringo" because he enjoyed wearing rings. The name "Starr" originates from his time playing with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, where he had his own featured slot called "Starr time."
