Ringo had two #1 hits in the USA off his album Ringo. The songs were “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen.”
25- Ringo played the wizard Merlin in the musical-comedy Son of Dracula. “It’s not the greatest movie in the world but I’ve seen worse,” said Ringo of the project.
26 -After John Lennon died, Ringo and his wife, Barbara, went to visit Yoko Ono. When Yoko insisted that she only wanted to see Ringo, Ringo retorted: “Look, it was you who started all this. We’re both coming in.” Yoko relented.
27 -Ringo grew up watching around three Westerns every week.
28- In 1980, officers at customs strip searched Ringo as he entered Mexico City to begin shooting the film Caveman.
29 -As a child, Ringo was known as Little Richie, while his father, whom was also named Richard, was known as Big Richie.
30 – On Ringo’s first day at the Abbey Road Studios, producer George Martin said he’d prefer using a session drummer and hired 32-year-old Andy White. Ringo was worried about losing his spot with The Beatles.
31- In the mid-’80s, Ringo provided the voice for the narrator and Mr. Conductor in the children’s TV seriesThomas The Tank Engine.
32 – Ringo was naturally left-handed, but played on a right-handed drum set. His grandmother helped him become ambidextrous by teaching him how to write with his right hand as a schoolboy.
33 – As a schoolboy, other students would get Ringo to talk and then laugh at him because his sentences would often contain malapropisms, later known as “Ringoisms.”
34- Immediately after joining The Beatles in 1962, Ringo shaved off his beard and restyled his hair into a mop top.
35- Joined the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best.
36 – He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1998.
37- His father was an avid fan of swing.
38 – Lennon asked Starr to join the Beatles; he accepted.
39- In 1971, Starr participated in the Concert for Bangladesh, organised by Harrison, and with him co-wrote the hit single “It Don’t Come Easy”, which reached number four in both the US and the UK.
40- He was also influenced by country artists, including Hank Williams, Buck Owens and Hank Snow, and jazz drummers such as Chico Hamilton and Yusef Lateef, whose compositional style inspired Starr’s fluid and energetic drum fills and grooves.
