Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his ...

Ringo Starr was in a band at Butlin's Skegness in 1962 when Lennon and McCartney paid a visit.

Ringo Starr celebrates his 81st birthday today. The beloved drummer and Beatle was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940 in Liverpool, England. As a child, Ringo suffered from a number of maladies that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask Ringo Starr about his decades-long love affair with Ludwig drums. Go ahead; we did. You're guaranteed to smile. What's more, ...

If you want to match each Beatle to his instrument, it generally doesn’t take much work. Paul McCartney played bass; John Lennon played rhythm guitar; George Harrison played lead guitar; and Ringo ...

If The Beatles were down one band member, it wasn’t the end of the world. In most cases, Paul McCartney would pick up the slack and the recording would go on. A famous example came in 1969, when John ...

Ringo Starr has a new limited-edition, hardcover book coming out called Beats & Threads that’s available for pre-order now exclusively at JuliensAuctions.com. The 312-page volume focuses on the ...

The sound of the drums can inform the listener of a song’s age within the first few seconds of the track, and as Paul McCartney explained in a 2005 interview, the Beatles’ experimental drum tones were ...

Very few Beatles fans can say that they got to become friends with Paul McCartney, but Dave Grohl is one of the lucky ones. Through the years, the Foo Fighters' frontman has developed a good ...

The hand-painted drum skin that appeared on the sleeve of the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.1 million at auction on Thursday in London, four… ...

Discover the story behind "Love Me Do," which The Beatles recorded three times in 1962 with three different drummers: Pete Best, Ringo Starr, and Andy White.

Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when someone realized ...