By year's end they had cracked the top twenty on the British charts with their first single and they had a second one on deck. Not bad for a group who had started the year off with little more than a local following in Liverpool and Hamburg, and was shuffling drummers like Spinal Tap.
On Aug. 16, 1962, Pete Best was fired from the Beatles. The British rock band decided to fire their original drummer and replace him with Ringo Starr....
Though it is my job to bring my unique perspective, gender/sexuality, in my mind, plays no part in me getting across an emotion. It is fluid. And I want my music to be heard on neutral ground always.
Ringo Starr celebrated his 72nd birthday on Saturday with a public "peace and love moment" in Nashville. Hundreds of fans joined Starr, from the baby ...