Word: ringo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meadow -the largest audience for a musical event in the city's history. No one could quite believe it. "I hoped for 20,000, maybe 30,000," beamed Moseley, "but this is fantastic!" The musicians, besieged by teen-agers for their autographs, gasped "Who me?" then gleefully scribbled "Ringo Starr." The program included the Act I Prelude to Wagner's Die Meistersinger, and was capped by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the 150-voice Manhattan Chorus. Said Soprano Ella Lee, awed by the thunderous reception: "It's as if Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony just...
...trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus entitled to put M.B.E. after their names and wear a silver lapel pin inscribed "For God and Empire." Her Majesty doesn't explain...
What they saw was four young chaps having a jolly good bash. In the avalanche of publicity that followed, the Beatles emerged as refreshingly relaxed, if not downright lovable, personalities. Their disarming humor (Reporter: "Why do you wear so many rings on your fingers?" Ringo: "Because I can't get them all through my nose") melted adult resistance...
...Married. Ringo Starr, 24, noisiest (drums) Beatle of them all, and Maureen Cox, 18, a Liverpool hairdresser, his home-town girl for the last three years; in a civil ceremony; in London. When they put their heads together, what with his moptop and her pageboy, it was a trifle difficult to tell which was which...
Probably the most convoluted reaction to the passing of the second Beatle (John is married) was given by a post-teen in Moors Hall. "I had heard that Ringo was going to attend the Air Force Academy, and since just about anyone will be able to play on their football team next year, may be we could talk Harvard into playing them so we could see him up close...