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...The Beatles’ “Let It Be”, with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Mick Fleetwood riding shotgun, is dispatched by Dolly with quivering Nashville sincerity....
...Then the final number, “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”, hands reaching out, fans surging and swilling....
...With Gang Starr, we tried to push people on to the right path.”...
...Originally intended for a small digital-only release, the album received worldwide acclaim, including from Jay-Z, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr themselves....
...“Sable” was Sable Starr, one of a number of young girls attracted by the dangerous glamour of the LA rock’n’roll scene in the early 1970s....
...The occasion was his Concert for Bangladesh — the first rock’n’roll benefit concert — held to raise funds for the victims of a bloody civil war....
...“Sixty years ago, Ringo Starr garnered his nickname due to placing a few rings on his mitts back when it was only acceptable for a man to wear a wedding ring....
...His own turn towards music came not through the jangling sounds of a Rickenbacker, but rather the twangy, more rock ’n’ roll tone of the Fender Telecaster: he was given one when he was 14....
...Youssou N’Dour and The Deftones also recorded it for a 2007 Amnesty album for Darfur....
...Ringo Starr Ringo 2012 (Universal)...
...Ringo Starr Y Not Ringo Starr was often underrated as a drummer but there’s no mistaking his lack of prowess as a singer....
...There was a time when special effects in pop music meant stuffing a woollen jumper in Ringo Starr’s drums to create the muffled beats on “Tomorrow Never Knows”, or feeding John Lennon’s voice through a revolving...
...The past decade’s dizzying gentrification of many of New York City’s once-rough neighbourhoods – from 125th Street in Harlem to the old piers of Brooklyn’s Red Hook – has passed E.N.Y. by....
...The writer, former chairman of the US-Korea Business Council and former chairman and chief executive officer of AIG, is chairman and CEO of CV Starr & Co, the global investment company...
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