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Ringo Starr
b. 1940
English musician and actor (born 1940)
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Birth
1940 July 7, 1940 →Biography
Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for 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 three others.
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English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Beatles, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and Plastic Ono Band)
July 7 →en Reino Unido, el exbeatle Ringo Starr entra en un centro de rehabilitación para el alcohol.
November 6 →en Nueva York se reúnen por última vez los tres ex-Beatles sobrevivientes, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr y George Harrison, a petición expresa de este último, quien fallecería 17 días después, el 29 de noviembre.
November 12 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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