![]() To celebrate his 80th birthday in 2020, he was the main attraction in the YouTube special, “Ringo’s Big Birthday Show.”Ī benefit for the Black Lives Matter Global Network, the David Lynch Foundation, MusiCares and WaterAid, it featured such guests as McCartney, Ben Harper, Sheila E and Gary Clark, Jr. The guests on Starr’s “EP3” included San Diego bass great Nathan East, who is a longtime member of Eric Clapton’s band. Life just happens and I have time right now.” It didn’t fit with a rock EP, so I said: ‘OK, now we’ll do a country EP.’ It’s not like I plan everything. “Then, just by chance T Bone Burnett sent me this beautiful country song. “Everyone was wearing masks, which we’re not now, and I thought: ‘OK, let’s make an EP.’ So, this year I’m going to be doing three EPs! We’ve done one and we’re very busy (doing) the next one now, and (former San Diego singer-songwriter) Linda Perry is on it. “And it gives me a chance to invite people I’ve never worked with, or worked with very seldom, and to use one of their songs. “The good thing with an EP is that it looks like it’s a short journey,” he said. Being able to record them in his home studio is a bonus. With his last full album, 2019’s “What’s My Name,” now four years behind him, Starr regards EPs as a sounder move for him than the 10- or 12-song LPs of yore. ![]() The Beatles released 16 EPs between 1963’s “My Bonnie” and 1968’s “Magical Mystery Tour,” usually with about four songs per EP. All three sold out soon after going on sale.ĭoing so takes Starr, a great-grandfather, full circle. It also includes San Diego shows May 28 and 30 at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Their previously announced 2023 spring tour opens Friday at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula. This week saw the announcement of his 2023 fall tour with his seven-man All-Starr Band, which features Toto guitarist Steve Lukather and 2023 Grammy Award-winner Edgar Winter. The pace Starr has maintained over the past few years makes it seem as if he might really be 38 after all - as evidenced by his multiple recordings, multiple books, filmed drum tutorials, two post-pandemic lockdown tours, philanthropic work for his Lotus Foundation, and more. That was more than a year after England entered World War II - and 22 years before John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison invited Starr to replace Pete Best as the drummer in the soon-to-change-the-world Beatles. There is ample evidence to confirm the man born Richard Starkey indeed came into this world on July 7, 1940.
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