Ringo Starr Song Lyrics

Richard Starkey MBE (born on 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles. Starr was the last to join The Beatles line up, replacing Pete Best, and was the oldest member of the band.

Starr mainly served as a drummer for The Beatles, but also achieved success as a songwriter with the group for the songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", served lead vocals on songs such as "Yellow Submarine", "With a Little Help from My Friends", "What Goes On", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Boys", and "Good Night", and achieved success in his solo career, with songs such as "It Don't Come Easy", "Photograph" and "You're Sixteen".

Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey to Richard and Elsie Starkey (née Gleave), at 9 Madryn Street, Dingle, Liverpool. Starr's parents split up when he was three years old; his mother, Elsie Starkey, married Harry Graves, whom Starr liked and who encouraged his interest in music. His childhood featured numerous hospital visits, in 1947 he contracted appendicitis. This progressed to the stage Starr fell in to a coma. At the age of 13, Starr was brought to hospital with chronic-pleurisy which caused him to be admitted to a sanatorium for two years. After his last extended visit to hospital, beginning at age 13, he did not return to school. His health problems had another enduring effect: allergies and sensitivities to food. When he travelled to India in 1968 with the other Beatles, he took his own food with him.

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