Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr is the professional pseudonym of the English singer, musician, actor and songwriter Richard Starkey was born on July 7, 1940, in a family of confectioners, Richard Starkey and Elsie Gleave, in Liverpool. 

His mother Elsie was a fan of dancing and singing, his father was fond of swing, they were active fans of this hobby until Richie's birth, constantly spending a lot of time in the local dance hall. Elsie was too caring for a mother to constantly control her son. As a child, he suffered from several serious illnesses that led to long-term treatment and hospitalization. Even though he was admitted to the hospital multiple times he did pick up an interest in drumming while he stayed in the sanatorium where he got admitted when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and to get rid of boredom the medical staff gave makeshift mallets and that helped Ringo get interested in drumming overall. Unfortunately, over time, the singer's father paid less and less attention to his family. This escalated into his constant absence from home, alcohol consumption, and other material problems. In 1944 Starr family moved to another area of ​​Dingle, Admiral Guy, but this did not affect the habits of Richard Stark, which soon led to the divorce. 

Eventually, after Ringo recovered, his mother found a new love, and together they moved to Liverpool. There he found a large number of records that inspired young musician to make music. It's weird to even think about it, but if it weren't for the misfortunes that befell him as a child, we might never have gotten the legendary Beatles drummer. After recovery, the boy did not return to school and decided to find a job. The search was greatly slowed down by the boy's poor health, so Ringo was not hired where physical strength was needed. 

Eventually, he found a job as a mechanic where he met people with whom he was able to share his passion for music. Ringo Starr rehearsed with them during lunch breaks. Of course, these were not quality-specific songs and most often it was just improvisation, but all the participants liked it. 

The first band that Starr joined was Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The band later gained immense popularity due to its combination of genres such as rock and roll and skiffle. Ringo played with the Hurricanes for a long time, until in 1962 he accepted John Lennon's offer to join the Beatles. 

He did have some concerns initially when he got replaced for the drums by another person for the second session of the recording of a song, but that was later explained as the manager didn’t want to take any risks. The Peak of the Band happened during the 1960s which was more commonly known as Beatlemania where the group’s popularity has reached its very peak. Eventually, in June the Beatles were scheduled to play concerts in Denmark, the Netherlands, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. But Ringo was stricken by sickness and has remarked that he would be replaced because of it but that hasn’t happened and on 11 February 1965, he married Maureen Cox. 

The time of the marriage wasn’t the best as he was experiencing quite the time for himself since the stress and pressure of Beatlemania had reached a peak it went as far as he had received death threats and was paranoid about possible assassins and went as far as to positioning his cymbals vertically to foil attempts on his life. All this pressure not just for Ringo but also for his bandmates had affected the overall performance of the band and as remarked by Ringo himself: ‘’ We were turning into such bad musicians’’ and also he remarked that he was slowly feeling more isolated from the band since they kept doing things that stemmed further from traditional rock music and it didn’t require him to be part of it. 

In 1970, after the break-up of the group, he devoted himself to writing and performing his songs for Americans: 'It Doesn’t Come Easy' and 'Photograph', 'You are Sixteen'. And in the UK, the most successful single was 'Back Off Boogaloo', which reached 2nd place in the ranking. Ringo's album in 1973 was in the top ten not only in the UK but also in America. His television career was also very busy, he participated in television shows, documentaries, even children's programs (portraying 'Mr.' in the first two series of ‘'Thomas Friends’' where he also led the story). In the first season of the children's series PBS 'Shining Station of Time,' he was a conductor. Since 1989 he has also toured with thirteen variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. 

Starr developed his style of playing the drums, where feelings took precedence over the technical perfection of the game, this style of playing had a great influence on the subsequent compositional point of view of many drummers. Having developed his style of playing, he did not stop there and given the need to improve the overall play he made some special techniques of drum operations (selected handle, adjust the drums below, and the use of silencers on the tonal rings). Of all his performances, he considers the Beatles' Rain to be the most successful. In 1999, Starr was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame, and in 2011 he was named the fifth-greatest drummer of all time by Rolling Stone. 

In 1988, as part of the Beatles and in 2015 as a solo singer, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of rock and roll, for his services in music and 2018 Ringo Starr received the title of Knight Bachelor with the prefix Sir Dedication, which took place on the 20th of March 2018 at Buckingham Palace. In the ranking of the richest drummers in the world, Starrr in 2018 took first place with a net capital of $350 million. In 2002, Ringo entered the Starr Percussion Art Society of Fame, made from such outstanding drummers and percussionists as Buddy Rich, William F. Ludwig Sr. and William F.  

In 2003, Ringo Rama released a song to remember Harrison about Never Without You. His new project was formed in 2003 by Pumpkinhead Records with All-Starr Band member Mark Hudson. The project didn't bring success, but one of the first discoveries was Liam Lynch. 

Liverpool's album was released on January 8, 2008, in the same year when Liverpool's year as the European Capital of Culture happened. The collaboration with McCartney took place in April 2009 at the "Change Begins Within" concert of the David Lynch Foundation, which took place at the New York Radio City Music Hall. In June 2009, Ringo spoke at a Microsoft E3 press conference with Yoko Ono, McCartney and Olivia Harrison to promote The Beatles: Rock Band. It's a videogame developed by Harmonix In 2010, McCartney released his 15th album, Y Not, with the track "Walk with You”. The All-Starr Band concert on July 7, 2010, dedicated to the singer's 70th anniversary, which was sung by his friends and family. 

Ringo's 2012 album was released in January 2012. In 2013, his band All-Starr toured the Pacific region in New Zealand, Australia and for the first time in Japan since 1996. In 2014, at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, McCartney performed the song "Queenie Eye". Starr took an active part in the anti-violence campaign "#peacerocks", which was launched by fashion designer John Varvatos and David Lynch Foundation. 

In 2014, he also received the GQ Men of the Year Award for his humanitarian work. In 2016, Starr's group toured the United States. On his 77th birthday in 2017, Starr released his 19th album "Give More Love". In the 2019 Star release of the 20th album "What is my name", recorded in his home studio in Los Angeles. On its 80th anniversary in 2020, Ringo Starr hosted a live concert featuring many of his friends. 

Today, Ringo Starr continues to do his favorite thing. In addition to music, he has other hobbies, one of which is drawing. You can even see some of his works in exclusive videos from the Cheka in which he talks about his career, personal life and many other interesting things, so do not miss this opportunity