Word: starr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Married. All from Liverpool, all in their early 20s, they come from similar working-class backgrounds. George Harrison's father is a bus driver. Paul McCartney's sells cotton. Ringo Starr, the somewhat corvine drummer, is the son of a house painter. He is called Ringo because he wears as many as six rings on his fingers. His real name is Richard Starkey...
...caterwauling teen-agers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, eleven crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop waiters, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good pressagent," chirped Ringo. (They have 17.) And how about the Detroit movement to stamp out Beatles? "Oh, we have a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit," said McCartney reasonably...
...Beatles opened with a fast-moving "All My Lovin," and immediately afficionados sensed something wrong; Beatle George Harrison, down with laryngitis, wasn't singing. But Ringo Starr was making up for it with a superb performance on the sticks and cymbals...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A program devoted to young artists, including Singers Liza Minelli and Jack Jones, Pianist Susan Starr, Folk Singers Ian and Sylvia, and Dancer Violette Verdy, with Jane Wyman as hostess. Color...
...students of If-. Says Beatle Spokesman John Lennon, 23: "The day the fans desert us, I'll be wondering how I'm going to pay for my whisky and Cokes." The other Beatles-Guitarists Paul McCartney, 21, and George Harrison, 20, and 23-year-old Drummer Ringo Starr (who wears four rings on his fingers)-are also keeping their heads. "We're not interested in living it up," says Ringo. "All our money goes into Beatles, Ltd., and we take only enough out for clothes and a few ciggies...