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100-504: The award has been presented every year since 1992, though it has had two name changes throughout its history. In 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Pop Performance , from 1993 to 2000 the award was known as Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance , and since 2001 it has been awarded as Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Apart from the first year it was presented, the award has been designated for "albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks", with "traditional" referring to

200-500: A Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music. Richard Starkey was born on Sunday 7 July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle , an inner-city area of Liverpool . He is the only child of confectioners Richard Starkey (1 October 1913 – 5 December 1981) and Elsie Gleave (19 October 1914 – 1 January 1987). Elsie enjoyed singing and dancing, a hobby that she shared with her husband, an avid fan of swing . Prior to

300-409: A thimble across a washboard , creating primitive, driving rhythms. Starkey enjoyed dancing as his parents had years earlier, and he and Trafford briefly took dance lessons at two schools. Though the lessons were short-lived, they provided Starkey and Trafford with an introduction that allowed them to dance competently while enjoying nights out on the town. On Christmas Day 1957, Graves gave Starkey

400-566: A 2003 LP entitled Fake Songs . Starr served as an honorary Santa Tracker and voice-over personality in 2003 and 2004 during the London stop in Father Christmas's annual Christmas Eve journey, as depicted in the annual NORAD tracks Santa program . According to NORAD officials, he was "a Starr in the east" who helped guide North American Aerospace Defense Command 's Santa-tracking tradition. His 2005 release Choose Love eschewed

500-516: A Little Help from My Friends ". Although the Beatles had enjoyed widespread commercial and critical success with Sgt. Pepper , the long hours they spent recording the LP contributed to Starr's increased feeling of alienation within the band; he commented: "[It] wasn't our best album. That was the peak for everyone else, but for me it was a bit like being a session musician ... They more or less direct me in

600-482: A Winners Certificate. Eligibility criteria for the category was expanded in 2025 to welcome more entries from the musical theater community, and it was mandated that albums must contain more than 75% of newly recorded and previously unreleased material. Great American Songbook The Great American Songbook is the loosely defined canon of significant 20th-century American jazz standards , popular songs , and show tunes . According to

700-619: A blackout." Having embraced sobriety, Starr focused on re-establishing his career by making a return to touring. On 23 July 1989, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band gave their first performance to an audience of ten thousand in Dallas , Texas. Setting a pattern that would continue over the following decades, the band consisted of Starr and an assortment of musicians who had been successful in their own right at different times. The concerts interchanged Starr's singing, including selections of his Beatles and solo songs, with performances of each of

800-610: A convalescence gift from Crawford. Starkey commented: "I was in the hospital band ... That's where I really started playing. I never wanted anything else from there on ... My grandparents gave me a mandolin and a banjo, but I didn't want them. My grandfather gave me a harmonica ... we had a piano – nothing. Only the drums." Starkey attended St Silas, a Church of England primary school near his house where his classmates nicknamed him " Lazarus ", and later Dingle Vale Secondary modern school , where he showed an aptitude for art and drama, as well as practical subjects including mechanics. As

900-547: A cover of Carl Perkins' " Honey Don't " at the Concert for George held in the Royal Albert Hall , London. Early the following year, he released the album Ringo Rama , which contained a song he co-wrote as a tribute to Harrison, " Never Without You ". Also in 2003, he formed Pumkinhead Records with All-Starr Band member Mark Hudson. The label was not prolific, but their first signing was Liam Lynch , who produced

1000-644: A drinking club, the Hollywood Vampires . From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, Starr and the designer Robin Cruikshank ran a furniture and interior design company, ROR . ROR's designs were placed on sale in the department stores of Harvey Nichols and Liberty of London . The company designed the interiors of palaces in Abu Dhabi and Oman, and the apartments of Paul Raymond and Starr's friend Nilsson. In November 1976, Starr appeared as

1100-608: A fire destroyed his Hollywood home and much of his Beatles memorabilia. On 19 May 1980, Starr and Barbara Bach survived a car crash in Surrey , England. Following Lennon's murder in December 1980, Harrison modified the lyrics of a song he had originally written for Starr, " All Those Years Ago ", as a tribute to their former bandmate. Released as a Harrison single in 1981, the track, which included Starr's drum part and overdubbed backing vocals by McCartney, peaked at number two in

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1200-590: A guest at the Band 's farewell concert, featured in the 1978 Martin Scorsese documentary The Last Waltz . Also in 1976, Starr issued Ringo's Rotogravure , the first release under his new contract with Atlantic Records for the North American market and Polydor for all other territories. The album was produced by Arif Mardin and featured compositions by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. Starr promoted

1300-476: A high-grade fever, pharyngitis and tonsillitis , and briefly stayed in a local hospital, followed by several days of recuperation at home. He was temporarily replaced for five concerts by 24-year-old session drummer Jimmie Nicol . Starr was discharged from the hospital and rejoined the band in Melbourne on 15 June. He later said that he feared he would be permanently replaced during his illness. In August,

1400-425: A microphone in front of Starr's kit in preparation for his spotlight moment and audiences would erupt in screams. When the Beatles made their film debut in A Hard Day's Night , Starr garnered praise from critics, who considered his delivery of deadpan one-liners and his non-speaking scenes highlights. The extended non-speaking sequences had to be arranged by director Richard Lester because of Starr's lack of sleep

1500-497: A mixing session for " I Want You ". At a business meeting exactly one month later, Lennon told the others that he was leaving the band, effective immediately. However, the band's break-up would not become public knowledge until McCartney's announcement on 10 April 1970 that he was also leaving. Shortly before McCartney announced his exit from the Beatles in April 1970, he and Starr had a falling out due to McCartney's refusal to cede

1600-554: A noise on a box ... Sometimes, he just slapped a biscuit tin with some keys, or banged on the backs of chairs." The pair were joined by Starkey's neighbour and co-worker, the guitarist Eddie Miles, forming the Eddie Miles Band, later renamed Eddie Clayton and the Clayton Squares after a Liverpool landmark . The band performed popular skiffle songs such as " Rock Island Line " and "Walking Cane", with Starkey raking

1700-811: A performance at London's Wembley Arena for the Prince's Trust charity. In January 1988, he attended the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in New York, with Harrison and Ono (the latter representing Lennon), to accept the Beatles' induction into the Hall of Fame. During October and November 1988, Starr and Bach attended a detox clinic in Tucson, Arizona ; each received a six-week treatment for alcoholism. He later commented on his longstanding addiction: "Years I've lost, absolute years ... I've no idea what happened. I lived in

1800-667: A planned country album, produced by Chips Moman , after which Moman was blocked by a court injunction from issuing the recordings. Starr narrated the 1984–86 series of the children's series Thomas & Friends , a Britt Allcroft production based on the books by the Reverend W. Awdry . For a single season in 1989, Starr also portrayed the character Mr. Conductor in the American Thomas & Friends spin-off, Shining Time Station . In 1985, Starr performed with his son Zak as part of Artists United Against Apartheid on

1900-461: A poor grasp of mathematics. His lack of education contributed to a feeling of alienation at school, which resulted in his regularly playing truant at Sefton Park . After several years of twice-weekly tutoring from his surrogate sister and neighbour, Marie Maguire Crawford, Starkey had nearly caught up to his peers academically, but in 1953, he contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium , where he remained for two years. During his stay

2000-557: A position as a barmaid, an occupation that she held for twelve years. At the age of six, Starkey developed appendicitis . Following a routine appendectomy he contracted peritonitis , causing him to fall into a coma that lasted days. His recovery spanned twelve months, which he spent away from his family at Liverpool's Myrtle Street children's hospital. Upon his discharge in May 1948, his mother allowed him to stay at home, causing him to miss school. At age eight, he remained illiterate, with

2100-473: A result of the prolonged hospitalisations, he fell behind his peers scholastically and was ineligible for the 11-plus qualifying examination required for attendance at a grammar school . After the extended hospital stay following Starkey's recovery from tuberculosis, he did not return to school, preferring instead to stay at home and listen to music while playing along by beating biscuit tins with sticks. On 17 April 1954, Starkey's mother married Harry Graves at

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2200-467: A second-hand drum kit consisting of a snare drum , bass drum and a makeshift cymbal fashioned from a rubbish bin lid. Although basic and crude, the kit facilitated his progression as a musician while increasing the commercial potential of the Eddie Clayton band, who went on to book prestigious local gigs before the skiffle craze faded in early 1958 as American rock and roll became popular in

2300-506: A song each from Lennon and McCartney. A commercial and critical success, the LP also included " Oh My My ", a US number five. The album reached number seven in the UK and number two in the US. Author Peter Doggett describes Ringo as a template for Starr's solo career, saying that, as a musician first rather than a songwriter, "he would rely on his friends and his charm, and if both were on tap, then

2400-481: A teenager Starr became interested in the UK skiffle craze and developed a fervent admiration for the genre. In 1957, he co-founded his first band, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, which earned several prestigious local bookings before the fad succumbed to American rock and roll around early 1958. When the Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool group, Rory Storm and

2500-399: A trilogy of standards albums recorded with arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle , Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: What's New isn't the first album by a rock singer to pay tribute to the golden age of pop, but is ... the best and most serious attempt to rehabilitate an idea of pop that Beatlemania and the mass marketing of rock LPs for teen-agers undid in the mid-'60s. During

2600-469: A waiter serving drinks on a day boat that travelled from Liverpool to North Wales, but his fear of conscription into military service led him to quit the job, not wanting to give the Royal Navy the impression that he was suitable for seafaring work. In mid-1956, Graves secured Starkey a position as an apprentice machinist at Henry Hunt and Son, a Liverpool school equipment manufacturer. While working at

2700-531: The Cavern Club the following day, Best fans, upset by his firing, held vigils outside his house and at the club shouting "Pete forever! Ringo never!" Harrison received a black eye from one upset fan, and Epstein, whose car tyres they had flattened in anger, temporarily hired a bodyguard. Starr's first recording session as a member of the Beatles took place on 4 September 1962. He stated that Martin had thought that he "was crazy and couldn't play ... because I

2800-549: The Great American Songbook Foundation : The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring tunes from

2900-781: The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi . While attending the Maharishi's intermediate course at his ashram in Rishikesh , India, they enjoyed one of their most prolific writing periods , composing most of the album there. It was here that Starr completed his first recorded Beatles song, " Don't Pass Me By ", but he left after 10 days and later compared his time there to a stay at Butlin's . The long-lasting health problems that began in his childhood had an impact on his time in India, causing him to experience allergies and sensitivities to

3000-457: The PBS children's television series Shining Time Station . Since 1989, he has toured with thirteen variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band . Starr's playing style, which emphasised feel over technical virtuosity, influenced many drummers to reconsider their playing from a compositional perspective. He also influenced various modern drumming techniques, such as the matched grip , tuning

3100-503: The "composition, vocal styling, and the instrumental arrangement" of the body of music known as the Great American Songbook . The 1992 award was presented to Natalie Cole for the spliced-together duet of her and her father, Nat King Cole , performing his original recording of " Unforgettable ". This is the only instance in which the traditional pop award was awarded for a song, as opposed to an album. Prior to 2001,

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3200-526: The 1920s to the 1950s that were created for Broadway theatre , musical theatre , and Hollywood musical film . Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term "Great American Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became

3300-693: The 1972 T. Rex documentary Born to Boogie . In 1973 and 1974, Starr had two number one hits in the US: " Photograph ", a UK number eight hit co-written with Harrison, and " You're Sixteen ", written by the Sherman Brothers . Starr's third million-selling single in the US, "You're Sixteen" was released in the UK in February 1974 where it peaked at number four. Both tracks appeared on Starr's debut rock album, Ringo , produced by Richard Perry and featuring further contributions from Harrison as well as

3400-725: The 4th (1977). The album failed to chart in the UK and peaked at number 162 in the US. In 1978 Starr released Bad Boy , which reached number 129 in the US and again failed to place on the UK albums chart. In April 1979, Starr became seriously ill with intestinal problems relating to his childhood bout of peritonitis and was taken to the Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo . He almost died and during an operation on 28 April, several feet of intestine had to be removed. Three weeks later he played with McCartney and Harrison at Eric Clapton's wedding. On 28 November,

3500-515: The 50th anniversary of Lennon's birth. The track, produced by Lynne, features a supergroup composed of Lynne, Tom Petty , Joe Walsh and Jim Keltner . The following year, Starr made a cameo appearance on The Simpsons episode " Brush with Greatness " and contributed an original song, "You Never Know", to the soundtrack of the John Hughes film Curly Sue . In 1992, he released his first studio album in nine years, Time Takes Time , which

3600-514: The Beatles at Bruno Koschmider ' s Kaiserkeller on 1 October 1960, where Starr first met the band. Storm's Hurricanes were given top-billing over the Beatles, who also received less pay. Starr performed with the Beatles during a few stand-in engagements while in Hamburg. On 15 October 1960, he drummed with John Lennon , Paul McCartney and George Harrison , recording with them for the first time while backing Hurricanes singer Lu Walters on

3700-427: The Beatles . Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including " Yellow Submarine " and " With a Little Help from My Friends ". He also wrote and sang the Beatles songs " Don't Pass Me By " and " Octopus's Garden ", and is credited as a co-writer of four others. Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, with periods of prolonged hospitalisation. As

3800-433: The Beatles and went on holiday to Sardinia , where he and his family stayed on a boat loaned to them by actor Peter Sellers . During a lunch there, the chef served octopus and Starr refused to eat it; an ensuing conversation with the ship's captain about the animal inspired Starr's song " Octopus's Garden " from the Beatles' album Abbey Road , which he wrote using a guitar during the trip. Two weeks later, he returned to

3900-583: The Beatles were introduced to American songwriter Bob Dylan , who offered the group cannabis cigarettes. Starr was the first to try one but the others were hesitant. On 11 February 1965, Starr married Maureen Cox , whom he had met in 1962. By this time the stress and pressure of Beatlemania had reached a peak for him. He received a telephoned death threat before a show in Montreal, and resorted to positioning his cymbals vertically in an attempt to defend against would-be assassins. The constant pressure affected

4000-525: The Beatles when Best was ill; Starr replied: "[Best] took little pills to make him ill". Soon after, Best filed a libel suit against him that lasted four years before the court reached an undisclosed settlement in Best's favour. In June, the Beatles were scheduled to begin their world tour of Denmark, the Netherlands, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Before the start of the tour, Starr was stricken with

4100-465: The Beatles without management; Starr remarked: "[It was] a strange time for us, when it's someone who we've relied on in the business, where we never got involved." Soon afterwards, the band began an ill-fated film project, Magical Mystery Tour . Starr's growing interest in photography led to his billing as the movie's Director of Photography, and his participation in the film's editing was matched only by that of McCartney. In February 1968, Starr became

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4200-458: The Beatles' performances; Starr commented: "We were turning into such bad musicians ... there was no groove to it." He was also feeling increasingly isolated from the musical activities of his bandmates, who were moving past the traditional boundaries of rock music into territory that often did not require his accompaniment; during recording sessions he spent hours playing cards with their road manager Neil Aspinall and road manager Mal Evans while

4300-401: The Beatles, he thought: "That's the end, they're doing a Pete Best on me." Martin later clarified: "I simply didn't know what Ringo was like and I wasn't prepared to take any risks." By November 1962, Starr had been accepted by Beatles fans, who were now calling for him to sing. He began receiving an amount of fan mail equal to that of the others, which helped to secure his position within

4400-454: The Beatles. On 16 August, Beatles manager Brian Epstein fired their drummer, Pete Best , who recalled: "He said 'I've got some bad news for you. The boys want you out and Ringo in.' He said [Beatles producer] George Martin wasn't too pleased with my playing [and] the boys thought I didn't fit in." Starr first performed as a member of the Beatles on 18 August 1962, at a horticultural society dance at Port Sunlight . After his appearance at

4500-546: 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. The following year he released his most successful UK hit, " Back Off Boogaloo " (again produced and co-written by Harrison), which peaked at number two (US number nine). Having become friends with the English singer Marc Bolan , Starr made his directorial debut with

4600-478: The Dingle, Admiral Grove ; soon afterwards his parents separated, and they divorced within the year. Starkey later stated that he has "no real memories" of his father, who made little effort to bond with him, visiting as few as three times thereafter. Elsie found it difficult to survive on her ex-husband's support payments of thirty shillings a week, so she took on several menial jobs cleaning houses before securing

4700-462: The Grammy was presented to the performing artists only; since then the award has been given to the performing artists, the engineers / mixers , as well as the producers , provided they worked on more than 51 percent of playing time on the album. Producers and engineers who worked on less than 50 percent of playing time of the album, as well as mastering engineers do not win an award, but can apply for

4800-623: The Hurricanes . After achieving moderate success in the UK and Hamburg , he quit the Hurricanes when he was asked to join the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best . In addition to the Beatles' films , Starr has acted in numerous others. After the Beatles disbanded , he released several successful singles including the US top-ten hit " It Don't Come Easy ", and number ones " Photograph " and " You're Sixteen ". His most successful UK single

4900-506: The Next One Will", which she described as being about revenge after he missed a dinner appointment with her because he was asleep in his office. Starr founded the record label Ring O' Records in 1975. The company signed eleven artists and released fifteen singles and five albums between 1975 and 1978, including works by David Hentschel , Graham Bonnet and Rab Noakes . The commercial impact of Starr's own career diminished over

5000-474: The States I know I went over well. It knocked me out to see and hear the kids waving for me. I'd made it as a personality ... Our appeal ... is that we're ordinary lads." He was a source of inspiration for several songs written at the time, including Penny Valentine 's " I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye " and Rolf Harris 's " Ringo for President ". Cher released her first single, " Ringo, I Love You " in 1964 under

5100-508: The UK charts and a successful television appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars earned favourable reviews, leading to a boost in sales and radio play. By the end of the year, the phenomenon known as Beatlemania had spread throughout the country, and by February 1964 the Beatles had become an international success when they performed in New York City on The Ed Sullivan Show to a record 73 million viewers. Starr commented: "In

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5200-527: The UK. In November 1959, Starkey joined Al Caldwell 's Texans, a skiffle group who were looking for someone with a proper drum kit so that the group could transition from one of Liverpool's best-known skiffle acts to a full-fledged rock and roll band. They had begun playing local clubs as the Raging Texans, then Jet Storm and the Raging Texans before settling on Rory Storm and the Hurricanes shortly before recruiting Starkey. About this time he adopted

5300-644: The US charts and number 13 in the UK. Later that year, Starr released Stop and Smell the Roses , featuring songs produced by Nilsson, McCartney, Harrison, Ronnie Wood and Stephen Stills . The album's lead single, the Harrison-composed "Wrack My Brain", reached number 38 in the US charts, but failed to chart in the UK. Lennon had offered a pair of songs for inclusion on the album – " Nobody Told Me " and " Life Begins at 40 " – but following his death, Starr did not feel comfortable recording them. Soon after

5400-471: The album was a commercial failure. Starr subsequently combined his musical activities with developing a career as a film actor . Starr played drums on Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), Ono's Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (1970), and on Harrison's albums All Things Must Pass (1970), Living in the Material World (1973) and Dark Horse (1974). In 1971, Starr participated in

5500-603: The arrangement. The Butlins gig led to other opportunities for the band, including an unpleasant tour of US Air Force bases in France about which Starr commented: "The French don't like the British; at least I didn't like them." The Hurricanes became so successful that when initially offered a highly coveted residency in Hamburg , they turned it down because of their prior commitment with Butlins. They eventually accepted, joining

5600-568: The band's net concert earnings. He commented on the nature of his lifestyle after having achieved success with the Beatles: "I lived in nightclubs for three years. It used to be a non-stop party." Like his father, Starr became well known for his late-night dancing and he received praise for his skills. During 1963, the Beatles enjoyed increasing popularity in Britain. In January, their second single, " Please Please Me ", followed "Love Me Do" into

5700-405: The band. Starr considered himself fortunate to be on the same "wavelength" as the other Beatles: "I had to be, or I wouldn't have lasted. I had to join them as people as well as a drummer." He was given a small percentage of Lennon and McCartney's publishing company, Northern Songs , but derived his primary income during this period from a one-quarter share of Beatles Ltd, a corporation financed by

5800-529: The beginning of a nine-year partnership with Mark Hudson , who produced the album and, with his band the Roundheads, formed the core of the backing group on the recordings. In addition, many famous guests joined on various tracks, including Martin, Petty, McCartney and, in his final appearance on a Starr album, Harrison. Most of the songs were written by Starr and the band. Joe Walsh and the Roundheads joined Starr for his appearance on VH1 Storytellers , which

5900-568: The birth of their son, whom they called "Ritchie", the couple had spent much of their free time on the local ballroom circuit, but their regular outings ended soon after his birth. Elsie adopted an overprotective approach to raising her son that bordered on fixation. Subsequently, "Big Ritchie", as Starkey's father became known, lost interest in his family, choosing instead to spend long hours drinking and dancing in pubs, sometimes for several consecutive days. In an effort to reduce their housing costs, his family moved in 1944 to another neighbourhood in

6000-422: The building and Starr boarded it before taking off over the city. Starr, Nilsson, and Keith Moon were among the cast, along with a forty-foot robot named 'Gort' placed on the building. During this period Starr became romantically involved with Lynsey de Paul . He played tambourine on a song she wrote and produced for Vera Lynn , "Don't You Remember When", and he inspired another De Paul song, "If I Don't Get You

6100-480: The completion of a third song. Starr then played drums on McCartney's 1997 album Flaming Pie . Among the tracks to which he contributed, "Little Willow" was a song McCartney wrote about Starr's ex-wife Maureen, who died in 1994, while " Really Love You " was the first official release ever credited to McCartney–Starkey. In 1998, he released two albums on the Mercury label. The studio album Vertical Man marked

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6200-649: The core repertoire of jazz musicians" during the period that "stretched roughly from 1920 to 1960". Although several collections of music have been published under the "Great American Songbook" title, the term does not refer to any actual book or specific list of songs. The Great American Songbook includes standards by Irving Berlin , George Gershwin , Cole Porter , Jerome Kern , Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer , Hoagy Carmichael , Richard Rodgers , and Oscar Hammerstein II , among others. In Alec Wilder 's 1972 study, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 ,

6300-409: The decade prior to Beatlemania, most of the great band singers and crooners of the '40s and '50s codified a half-century of American pop standards on dozens of albums, many of them now long out-of-print. Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr , is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for

6400-487: The drums lower, and using muffling devices on tonal rings. In his opinion, his finest recorded performance was on the Beatles' " Rain ". In 1999, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers named him the fifth-greatest drummer of all time. He was inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , as a Beatle in 1988 and as a solo artist in 2015, and appointed

6500-403: The facility Starkey befriended Roy Trafford, and the two bonded over their shared interest in music. Trafford introduced Starkey to skiffle , and he quickly became a fervent admirer. Soon after Trafford piqued Starkey's interest in skiffle, the two began rehearsing songs in the manufacturing plant's cellar during their lunch breaks. Trafford recalled: "I played a guitar, and [Ritchie] just made

6600-470: The first Beatle to sing on another artist's show without the others. He sang the Buck Owens hit " Act Naturally ", and performed a duet with Cilla Black , "Do You Like Me Just a Little Bit?" on her BBC One television programme, Cilla . In November 1968, Apple Records released The Beatles , commonly known as the "White Album". The album was partly inspired by the band's recent interactions with

6700-535: The house with many luxury items, including numerous televisions, light machines, film projectors, stereo equipment, a billiard table , go-kart track and a bar named the Flying Cow, he did not include a drum kit; he explained: "When we don't record, I don't play." For the Beatles' seminal 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Starr sang lead vocals on the Lennon–McCartney composition " With

6800-495: The increasing pressures of touring, the Beatles gave their final concert, a 30-minute performance at San Francisco 's Candlestick Park . Starr commented: "We gave up touring at the right time. Four years of Beatlemania were enough for anyone." By December he had moved to a larger estate called Sunny Heights, 3 acres (1.2 ha) in size, at St George's Hill in Weybridge , Surrey , near to Lennon. Although he had equipped

6900-631: The local food; when the band travelled there, he resorted to taking his own food with him. Relations within the Beatles deteriorated during the recording of the White Album, and there were occasions where only one or two members were involved in the recording of a track. Starr had become tired of McCartney's increasingly overbearing approach, Lennon's passive-aggressive behaviour , and the near-constant presence of Lennon's wife Yoko Ono . After one particularly difficult session which included McCartney harshly criticising his drumming, Starr briefly quit

7000-492: The medical staff made an effort to stimulate motor activity and relieve boredom by encouraging their patients to join the hospital band, leading to his first exposure to a percussion instrument: a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed. Soon afterwards, he grew increasingly interested in drumming, receiving a copy of the Alyn Ainsworth song "Bedtime for Drums" as

7100-461: The murder, Starr and his girlfriend Barbara Bach flew to New York City to be with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. Following Stop and Smell the Roses , Starr's recording projects were beset with problems. After completing Old Wave in 1982 with producer Joe Walsh , he was unable to find a record company willing to release the album in the UK or the US. In 1987, he abandoned sessions in Memphis for

7200-485: The other Beatles perfected tracks without him. In a letter published in Melody Maker , a fan asked the Beatles to let Starr sing more; he replied: "[I am] quite happy with my one little track on each album". In August 1966, the Beatles released Revolver , their seventh UK LP. It included the song " Yellow Submarine ", their only British number-one single with Starr as the lead singer. Later that month, owing to

7300-421: The other artists' well-known material, the latter incorporating either Starr or another musician as drummer. The first All-Starr excursion led to the release of Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band (1990), a compilation of live performances from the 1989 tour. Also in 1990, Starr recorded a version of the song " I Call Your Name " for a television special marking the 10th anniversary of John Lennon's death and

7400-467: The previous night; Starr commented: "Because I'd been drinking all night I was incapable of saying a line." Epstein attributed Starr's acclaim to "the little man's quaintness". After the release of the Beatles' second feature film, Help! (1965), Starr won a Melody Maker poll against his fellow Beatles for his performance as the central character in the film. During an interview with Playboy in 1964, Lennon explained that Starr had filled in with

7500-462: The protest song " Sun City ", and, with Harrison and Eric Clapton , was among the special guests on Carl Perkins ' TV special Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session . In 1987, he played drums on Harrison's Beatles pastiche " When We Was Fab " and also appeared in Godley & Creme 's innovative video clip for the song. The same year, Starr joined Harrison, Clapton, Jeff Lynne and Elton John in

7600-582: The pseudonym Bonnie Joe Mason. In 1964, "I love Ringo" lapel pins were the bestselling Beatles merchandise. The prominent placing of the Ludwig logo on the bass drum of his American import drum kit gave the company such a burst of publicity that it became the dominant drum manufacturer in North America for the next twenty years. During live performances, the Beatles continued the "Starr Time" routine that had been popular among his fans: Lennon would place

7700-668: The pub out [of] their heads, they'd sing all these songs. Other pop singers who established themselves in the 1960s or later followed with albums reviving songs from the Great American Songbook, beginning with Harry Nilsson 's A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night in 1973 and continuing into the 21st century. Linda Ronstadt (1983 though 1986), Rod Stewart (2002 through 2005), Bob Dylan (2015 through 2017) and Lady Gaga (2014 and 2021) made several such albums. Of Ronstadt's 1983 album, What's New , her first in

7800-529: The public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey . Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart , with sales of 500,000. It's a lot of songs that were my initiation to music. It's all the tracks that, when my mother and my father came home from

7900-413: The register office on Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. He was an ex-Londoner who had moved to Liverpool following the failure of his first marriage. Graves, an impassioned fan of big band music and their vocalists, introduced Starkey to recordings by Dinah Shore , Sarah Vaughan and Billy Daniels . Graves stated that he and "Ritchie" never had an unpleasant exchange between them; Starkey later commented: "He

8000-561: The release date of his eponymous solo album to allow for Starr's debut, Sentimental Journey , and the Beatles' Let It Be . Starr's album – composed of renditions of pre-rock standards that included musical arrangements by Quincy Jones , Maurice Gibb , George Martin and McCartney – peaked at number seven in the UK and number 22 in the US. Starr followed Sentimental Journey with the country-inspired Beaucoups of Blues , engineered by Scotty Moore and featuring renowned Nashville session musician Pete Drake . Despite favourable reviews,

8100-417: The release heavily, yet Rotogravure and its accompanying singles failed to chart in the UK. In America, the LP produced two minor hits, " A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll " (number 26) and a cover of " Hey! Baby " (number 74), and achieved moderate sales, reaching a chart position of 28. Its disappointing performance inspired Atlantic to revamp Starr's formula; the result was a blend of disco and 1970s pop, Ringo

8200-497: The results were usually appealing". Goodnight Vienna followed in 1974 and was also successful, reaching number eight in the US and number 30 in the UK. Featuring contributions from Lennon, Elton John and Harry Nilsson , the album included a cover (suggested by Lennon) of the Platters ' 1954 hit " Only You (And You Alone) ", which peaked at number six in the US and number 28 in the UK, and Hoyt Axton 's " No No Song ", which

8300-399: The same period, however, although he continued to record and remained a familiar celebrity presence. Speaking in 2001, he attributed this downward turn to his "[not] taking enough interest" in music, saying of himself and friends such as Nilsson and Keith Moon : "We weren't musicians dabbling in drugs and alcohol; now we were junkies dabbling in music." Starr, Nilsson and Moon were members of

8400-477: The song " Summertime ". During Starr's first stay in Hamburg he also met Tony Sheridan , who valued his drumming abilities to the point of asking Starr to leave the Hurricanes and join his band. Starr quit Rory Storm and the Hurricanes in January 1962 and briefly joined Sheridan in Hamburg before returning to the Hurricanes for a third season at Butlins. On 14 August, Starr accepted Lennon's invitation to join

8500-409: The songwriter and critic lists and ranks the artists he believes belong to the Great American Songbook canon. A composer, Wilder emphasized analysis of composers and their creative efforts in this work. Radio personality Jonathan Schwartz and singer Tony Bennett , both Songbook devotees, have both described this genre as "America's classical music". In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised

8600-467: The soot-filled air of their coal-fuelled neighbourhood. Adding to their difficult circumstances, violent crime was an almost constant concern for people living in one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool. Starkey later commented: "You kept your head down, your eyes open, and you didn't get in anybody's way." After his return home from the sanatorium in late 1955, Starkey entered

8700-551: The stage name Ringo Starr; derived from the rings he wore and also because it implied a country and western influence. His singing solos were billed as Starr Time . By early 1960, the Hurricanes had become one of Liverpool's leading bands. In May, they were offered a three-month residency at a Butlins holiday camp in Wales. Although initially reluctant to accept the residency and end his five-year machinist apprenticeship that he had begun four years earlier, Starr eventually agreed to

8800-431: The star-guests approach of his last two studio albums but failed to chart in the UK or the US. That same year, Liverpool's City Council announced plans to demolish Starr's birthplace, 9   Madryn Street, stating that it had "no historical significance". The LCC later announced that the building would be taken apart brick by brick and preserved. Starr released the album Liverpool 8 in January 2008, coinciding with

8900-472: The start of Liverpool's year as the European Capital of Culture . Hudson was the initial producer of the recordings, but after a falling out with Starr, he was replaced by David A. Stewart . Starr performed the title track at the opening ceremony for Liverpool's appointment, but thereafter attracted controversy over his seemingly unflattering comments about his city of birth. Later that year, he

9000-407: The studio to find that Harrison had covered his drum kit in flowers as a welcome-back gesture. Despite a temporary return to friendly interactions during the completion of the White Album, production of the Beatles' fourth feature film Let It Be and its accompanying album further strained band relationships. On 20 August 1969, the Beatles gathered for the final time at Abbey Road Studios for

9100-434: The style I can play." His inability to compose new material led to his input being minimised during recording sessions; he often found himself relegated to adding minor percussion effects to songs by McCartney, Lennon and Harrison. During his downtime, Starr worked on his guitar playing, and said: "I jump into chords that no one seems to get into. Most of the stuff I write is twelve-bar". Epstein's death in August 1967 left

9200-505: The surviving former Beatles for the Beatles Anthology project. They recorded two new Beatles songs built around solo vocal and piano tapes recorded by Lennon and gave lengthy interviews about the Beatles' career. Released in December 1995, " Free as a Bird " was the first new Beatles single since 1970. In March 1996, they released a second single, " Real Love ". The temporary reunion ended when Harrison refused to participate in

9300-439: The workforce but was lacking in motivation and discipline; his initial attempts at gainful employment proved unsuccessful. In an effort to secure himself some warm clothes, he briefly held a railway worker's job with British Rail , which came with an employer-issued suit. He was supplied with a hat but no uniform and, unable to pass the physical examination, he was laid off and granted unemployment benefits . He then found work as

9400-411: Was " Back Off Boogaloo ", which peaked at number two. He achieved commercial and critical success with his 1973 album Ringo , which was a top-ten release in both the UK and the US. Starr has also featured in numerous documentaries, hosted television shows, narrated the first two series of the children's television programme Thomas & Friends and portrayed "Mr. Conductor" during the first season of

9500-536: Was a US number three and Starr's seventh consecutive top-ten hit. The Elton John-written " Snookeroo " failed to chart in the UK, however. In mid-November 1974, a music video for the song and promotional film for the album was filmed on the rooftop of the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles, designed to resemble a stack of discs. Lennon provided a voiceover as Starr's spacecraft landed on

9600-523: Was great ... I learned gentleness from Harry." Beatles biographer Bob Spitz described Starkey's upbringing as "a Dickensian chronicle of misfortune". Houses in the area were "poorly ventilated, postage-stamp-sized ... patched together by crumbling plaster walls, with a rear door that opened onto an outhouse." Crawford commented: "Like all of the families who lived in the Dingle, he was part of an ongoing struggle to survive." The children who lived there spent much of their time at Prince's Park , escaping

9700-458: Was produced by Phil Ramone , Don Was , Lynne and Peter Asher and featured guest appearances by various stars including Brian Wilson and Harry Nilsson. The album failed to achieve commercial success, although the single " Weight of the World " peaked at number 74 in the UK, marking his first appearance on the singles chart there since "Only You" in 1974. In 1994, he began a collaboration with

9800-720: Was released as an album under the same name . During the show, he performed greatest hits and new songs and told anecdotes relating to them. Starr's final release for Mercury was the 1999 Christmas-themed I Wanna Be Santa Claus . The album was a commercial failure, although the record company chose not to issue it in Britain. Starr was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2002, joining an elite group of drummers and percussionists that include Buddy Rich , William F. Ludwig Sr. and William F. Ludwig Jr. On 29 November 2002 (the first anniversary of Harrison's death), he performed "Photograph" and

9900-499: Was the object of further criticism in the press for posting a video on his website in which he harangued fans and autograph hunters for sending him items to sign. In April 2009, he reunited with McCartney at the David Lynch Foundation 's " Change Begins Within " benefit concert, held at New York's Radio City Music Hall . Having played his own set beforehand, Starr joined McCartney for the finale and performed "With

10000-464: Was trying to play the percussion and the drums at the same time, we were just a four-piece band". For their second recording session with Starr, on 11 September 1962, Martin replaced him with session drummer Andy White while recording takes for what would be the two sides of the Beatles' first single, " Love Me Do ", backed with " P.S. I Love You ". Starr played tambourine on "Love Me Do" and maracas on "P.S. I Love You". Concerned about his status in

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