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Ringo Starr: Years
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Rock star legend, Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach will officially open THE 4HEAD GARDEN OF DREAMS. Featuring over 7,000 plants, healing herbs and trees, the 4head Garden of Dreams is one of the largest exhibits on Main Avenue at this year's show.
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Ringo Starr is clearly a man on a mission. A heartfelt mission to drum up support both at home and abroad for Capital of Culture year. But there were things he wanted to do while in the town where he was born, like visit his old school and sign autographs for the pupils. [more...]
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Born in Liverpool, England, Starr's parents split up when he was young; his mother, a person of Jewish descent, remarried Harry Graves. He was raised in the working class Dingle area of Liverpool. He went through two serious illnesses as a child and spent a total of three years in hospital, thereby falling considerably behind in school; after his last visit to the hospital, at the age of 15, he could barely read or write.
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Ringo was very sick as a child, and spent several years in the hospital, battling Appendicitis and Peritonitis. It was while he was in the hospital that he learned to play the drums when one of the nurses had the boys in the ward play an electronic percussion instrument, marked with colors. He got a set of drums from a relative and the rest is history.
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In his extensive survey of The Beatles' recording sessions, Mark Lewisohn confirmed that Starr was both proficient and remarkably reliable and consistent. According to Lewisohn, there were fewer than a dozen occasions in The Beatles' eight-year recording career where session 'breakdowns' were caused by Starr making a mistake, while the vast majority of takes were stopped due to mistakes by the other three members.[24]
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