![]() Liverpool agent Allan Williams, who had booked the Hurricanes and the Beatles into the club, was very impressed with Lu Walters, the singer with the Hurricanes. Ringo was a member of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at the time, a group who were topping the bill over the Beatles at the Kaiserkeller club in the Grosse Freiheit. ![]() Akustic StudioĪ tiny recording booth at Kirchenalle 57 in Hamburg, Germany, where John, Paul, George and Ringo played together on record for the very first time on Saturday 16 October 1960. The number is 3 minutes and 11 seconds in length. Ringo was on lead vocals, drums and percussion and Jeff Lynne on guitar, bass, piano, keyboards and backing vocals. It was produced by Jeff Lynne and engineered by Richard Dodd. After All These YearsĪ track from the 1992 Time Takes Time album, written by Ringo Starr and Johnny Warman. Ringo’s mother Elsie and stepfather Harry moved out of the terraced house in 1965 when Ringo bought them a bungalow. Ringo was to live there until the beginning of 1963. She also had to move to a house where the rent was cheaper, as she only earned her living as a barmaid at the Empress pub at the time. ![]() Her husband had left her but had moved further up Madryn Street and Elsie didn’t want to keep bumping into him. The house in the Liverpool 8 district of Dingle where Elsie Starkey moved with her son in 1944. The flipside featured Buck Owens performing the Harlon Howard number ‘The Key’s In The Mailbox’. ![]() This single was produced by Jerry Crutchfield and Jim Shaw and issued in America on Capitol B-44409 on 29 July 1989, although it didn’t enter the charts. 1 country and western hit for Buck Owens in March 1963, and on Monday 27 March 1989 Ringo joined Owens at Abbey Road Studios to record a new version of the number, lasting 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Ringo also performed it on the Beatles’ 1965 American tour, on a 1965 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, on the Beatles’ 1965 British tour, on the 1965 TV show Cilla and on the 1978 ‘Ringo’ television special. It was also used on the B side of the American single of ‘Yesterday’ released on 13 September 1965, which reached No. The track was included on the Help! album, on the American LP Yesterday. The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia completes the Virgin series on the individual Beatles and is the most comprehensive book about Ringo Starr ever written.Ī NUMBER ORIGINALLY penned by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison that the Beatles recorded in 1965, with Ringo on lead vocals. His story is inspiring: from humble beginnings to mega-stardom dating a succession of beautiful models and actresses marriage to Bond Girl Barbara Bach and fabulous wealth and recognition as a recording star and actor in his own right. George Martin described him as ‘the cement that held the Beatles together’. Ringo became the most popular member of the group while in America during the ‘British Invasion’. He made his first appearance with the Fab Four in Hamburg during a recording session. With a kit bought for him by his stepfather, he taught himself to play the drums and soon became one of the most acclaimed drummers in Liverpool – just as the famed ‘Mersey Sound’ was being created – as a member of Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, a group billed above the Beatles. Despite having all the odds against him, he became one of the most famous people on the planet. Born into poverty in a tiny house in Liverpool’s Dingle area, deserted by his father, he suffered years of illness which seriously affected his schoolwork. Ringo Starr was the genuine working-class member of the Beatles. To Ringo’s girls: Maureen Tigrett, Lee Starkey and Barbara Bach Starkey About the Book Copyright THE RINGO STARR ENCYCLOPEDIA Bill Harry
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