#Ringo starr discography series#
Conductor” during the first season of the PBS children’s television series Shining Time Station. He has featured in numerous documentaries, hosted television shows, narrated the first two series of the children’s television programme Thomas & Friends and portrayed “Mr. He achieved commercial and critical success with his 1973 album Ringo, which was a top-ten release in both the UK and the US. His most successful UK single was “Back Off Boogaloo”, which peaked at number two.
After the band’s break-up in 1970, he released several successful singles including the US top-ten hit “It Don’t Come Easy”, and number ones “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen”. In addition to the Beatles’ films, Starr has acted in numerous others. 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. When the Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool group, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. 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. Soon afterwards, he became interested in the UK skiffle craze and developed a fervent admiration for the genre. He briefly held a position with British Rail before securing an apprenticeship as a machinist at a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, with periods of prolonged hospitalisations. 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 others. He occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including “Yellow Submarine”, “With a Little Help from My Friends” and their cover of “Act Naturally”. Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame during the 1960s as the drummer for the Beatles.
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