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Full Name:Richard Starkey

Born:July 8,1940

Home:Liverpool, England

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Instrument(s)

• Drums
• Piano

Genre(s)

Label(s)

Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, Vee-Jay, Polydor, Atlantic, RCA, Mercury, Koch Private Music, Boardwalk Records, Rykodisc

RIYL

Member of

• The Beatles
• Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
• Ringo Starr and All-Starr Band
• Plastic Ono Band

Has Notably Worked with

• Buck Owens
• T-Rex

Musician Biography

Discography

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Appears On

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Further Reading

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From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Ringo Starr was member of The Beatles along with John Lennon Paul McCartney and George Harrison he jonined the band in 1962 after the fired of the oringial drummer Pete Best. along with the other beatles The Doctor and Donna Noble went to see them in early 1960s. A Starstruck Donna had the band sign a CD which had songs on it which they had yet to record.

In 1965 performed Ticket to Ride at Riverside Studios

From Muppet Wiki

Ringo Starr (b. 1940) is a musician who achieved worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles. Starr mainly served as the group's drummer and backing vocalist but also achieved success as a songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus' Garden." He also generally sang lead vocals on at least one song on each of the group's studio albums, the most notable of which include "Yellow Submarine," "With a Little Help from My Friends," "What Goes On," and "Good Night."

Starr is also known on children's TV for having played the narrator of the series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in the mid-1980s and Mr. Conductor in the 1989 spin-off, Shining Time Station.

He appeared in a February 2008 Disney Xtreme Digital video with Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn during the Muppets' coverage of the Grammy Awards ceremony.

References

In The Muppet Show episode 517, Statler introduces "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," noting how they'd hoped to have the Beatles themselves perform it but hadn't heard back from any of them, when Waldorf rushes on stage with breaking news:

Waldorf: Wait a second! I just talked to Ringo. Statler: Oh, great! What did he say? Waldorf: No.

External links

• Official Site
• IMDb