Happy Birthday Ringo
Ringo Starr, the drummer in the Beatles is 70 years old today. It hardly seems possible.
Born with name Richard Starkey he became known as Ringo in the early days of Liverpool rock-n-roll because of his penchant for wearing lots of rings on his fingers, today he wears them in his ears.
Before he was a Beatle he was the drummer in a band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes that originally started out as a skiffle band.
As a high school kid in Liverpool at the time I recall the near riots when he replaced Pete Best, the original and much loved drummer of the Beatles, dumped unceremoniously in 1962 just before they were about to become the phenomenon they were.
There were demonstrations and huge outcry in the city and one overly exuberant fan actually attacked George Harrison. It wasn't that we didn't like Ringo, we just liked him better with Rory Storm and Pete Best with the Beatles.
These were the best years of the Beatles music in my opinion. The sound was raw and exciting born in the dark dank cellars of old warehouses near the city waterfront.
Ringo was eventually accepted and we all know what happened next of course.
If you're from Liverpool you are known as a scouser after a local dish called scouse, a stew made from meat ( usually the cheap cuts ) potatoes and vegetables ( tasted bloody awful ).
So from one scouser to another:
Happy Birthday Ringo
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