![]() What does Ringo have to do with VC investing and startup companies? A ton, in fact. But, the older I get, and the closer I listen to music and to the Beatles, the more I’ve come to realize - he’s not just good - he’s incredible. I saw him as a goofball, the silly Beatle, and just a so-so drummer - or worse. He learned to play the drums by drumming in a hospital band in his ward.For most of my life, I’d heard and even believed Beatles drummer Ringo Starr wasn’t that good. Ringo spent a majority of his youth in hospitals and sanatoriums because of severe bouts with pleurisy and tuberculosis. His appendix burst and he was in a coma for ten weeks.ġ6- He was a very sickly child. Because of his incredible ability to survive, his grandfather’s nickname for him was “Lazarus.”ġ5-At the age of six, Ringo’s developed appendicitis. The other Beatles never knew about his health history until all four were swimming together one day and the others saw all the operation scars on Ringo’s stomach.ġ4-Ringo was so sick as young boy, three times his doctors told his mother he wouldn’t survive the night. He hates and won’t eat tomatoes, onions, Chinese food or any spicy foods.ġ3-He underwent several operations for his ill health. This is the reason he has almost always sported a beard or mustache after the Beatles stopped touring in 1966.ġ1-He also hates motorcycles, traveling early in the morning, and setting up his drums in a hurry.ġ2- Ringo suffers from many different allergies. The Beatles offered him more money (25 pounds a week to the Dominoes’ offer of 20 pounds.)ġ0-He hates shaving too. He got another offer from another local band called the Dominoes at the same time. Ringo was offered to join the Beatles in August of 1962. According to Ringo, there were just too many forms to sign and they abandoned the idea.ĩ-He chose the Beatles over the Dominoes. They wrote to the state of Texas about leaving England and moving there. At least he received the most fan mail of the four.Ĩ- In 1961, a year before he joined the Beatles, Ringo and a friend actually tried to emigrate to America. It was there that he wrote his biggest hit for the Beatles “Octopus’ Garden.” When he returned, his drums were coated with flowers (they were put there by George).ħ-In 1964, when the Beatles first came to America, Ringo was actually the most popular Beatle. Frustrated during the sessions for The Beatles ( the White Album) sessions in August of 1968, Ringo left the group and went for a holiday in Sardinia. It was Ringo who took the first puff of the infamous weed after being offered a hit by Dylan.Ħ-He was the first Beatle to leave the group. On August 28, 1964, the Beatles were introduced to marijuana by Bob Dylan at the Delmonico hotel in New York. Ringo recorded a radio spot against “dangerous drugs” in the 1970’s.ĥ- Ringo was the first Beatle to smoke marijuana. He developed a technique where he would watch the other three’s rear ends as they moved during concerts, and would use this as a barometer to drum and keep the beat.Ĥ- He is the only Beatle who was never busted for drugs. During several Beatle concerts, the noise grew so loud from the screaming fans, Ringo couldn’t hear his comrades singing. Ringo joined fellow inductees Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and William Ludwig (Ringo always uses Ludwig drum kits.)ģ- Sometimes he’d have to follow the Fab Four’s rear ends. Richard Starkey was inducted into the prestigious Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. ![]() But now Ringo was (finally) elected on his ownĢ-In 2002, Mr. ![]() 1-In 2015, Ringo was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the Beatles had been inducted as a group in 1988). ![]()
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