He said: 'I got involved with a lot of different medications and you can listen to my records go downhill as the amount of medication went up. Ringo's 1983 album Old Wave didn't make the charts. As he wanders the aisles, it is hard to believe that he is 75.īut the early years of the marriage were professionally and personally disastrous. The Tonic & Juice bar on site offers a frankly bewildering list of concoctions, including coconut Bulgarian rose water and green juice with sun warrior plant protein.Īnd here, among the wannabes hoping to be spotted by a Hollywood producer over a ferociously overpriced glass of almond milk or a small brussels sprout salad you will find all-organic vegan Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr.Īn unassuming figure, as slender as a teenager, he habitually wears all black and some jingly silver jewellery. There is probably no place in Beverly Hills that says more about the fad-heavy Californian lifestyle than health food shop Erewhon - motto: 'If it's here it's good for you'. In 2008 Ringo toured with his tenth All-Starr ensemble, which featured past participants Colin Hay, Billy Squier, Hamish Stuart, and Edgar Winter, and added keyboardist Gary Wright and drummer Gregg Bissonette.Ringo Starr attends the Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach Julien's Auctions event at Julien's Auctions Gallery. Also released in 2007 was the definitive Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr. The 2007 release Live at Soundstage featured a show recorded two years earlier in Chicago. In 2006 he made a guest appearance on Jerry Lee Lewis' album Last Man Standing and toured with another edition of his All-Starr Band, this time featuring Sheila E. Two studio records appeared during the early 2000s: Ringorama from 2003 and Choose Love two years later. Starr's first seasonal effort, I Wanna Be Santa Claus, appeared a year later. Vertical Man, his first album for Mercury, followed in 1998, as did a disc culled from his performance on the VH1 Storytellers series. Starr was also suffering from the excesses of his lifestyle, but by the late '80s he had cleaned up, and in 1989 he toured with his 'All-Starr Band.' In 1992, he signed to Private Music and released a new studio album, Time Takes Time. His 1983 album, Old Wave, did not find a U.S. Starr continued to release albums through 1981, though with diminishing success. Almost as successful was the 1974 follow-up, Goodnight Vienna, which featured the hits 'Only You' and 'No No Song.'

In 1973 he paired with producer Richard Perry and, with assistance from the three other ex-Beatles, made Ringo, which featured two number one hits, 'Photograph' and 'You're Sixteen.' 'Oh My My,' a Top Ten hit, was also included.

Starr then scored Top Ten hits with two non-album singles, 'It Don't Come Easy' in 1971 and 'Back Off Boogaloo' in 1972. Upon the group's split, Starr went solo with two novelty projects: the first, an album called Sentimental Journey, found him covering pre-rock standards, and the second, Beaucoups of Blues, was a country music collection. Though the least prominent member of the quartet, he distinguished himself as an occasional singer of good-natured material and as an actor. Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey, was the drummer in the Beatles from 1962 to 1970 and thus one of the most famous musicians of the '60s.

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