

#Ringo starr wrack my brain how to#
George Harrison had a massive impact on film history as a producer with a hand in Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, Shanghai Surprise, Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.īut despite a few cameos in some of those films, and despite the obvious star quality of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, it's Ringo Starr who had the most significant acting career out of all of the Beatles.

Two days later Brian Epstein told Pete Best: "I've got some bad news for you.

Then, on August 14, Ringo accepted John Lennon's invitation to join The Beatles. Indeed, Ringo briefly quit the Hurricanes to join Sheridan in early 1962, before returning to Rory Storm's gang for another Butlins stint. Ringo's talent turned heads, and Beatles associate Tony Sheridan was among those wanting to nab him for his own band. He occasionally stood in for Best, and couple of weeks later, he even recorded with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, when the lads who would eventually become the Fab Four backed Hurricanes singer Lu Walters on a version of 'Summertime'. He was playing with the Hurricanes at Bruno Koschmider's Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, who were headlining above the Beatles at the time. Pete Best was still drumming with the group when Ringo first met them on October 1, 1960. While it's impossible to think of The Beatles without Ringo Starr, he was a relative latecomer to the band. The Beatles and Rory Storm and The Hurricanes (featuring Ringo Starr) at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg. The Hurricanes were a significant local success story around Liverpool and also picked up residencies in Butlins, US Airforce Bases and eventually in Hamburg. He then joined Al Caldwell's Texans who became The Raging Texans, then Jet Storm and the Raging Texans, and finally Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Ringo co-founded the well-regarded Eddie Miles Band, later the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group and Eddie Clayton and the Clayton Squares. It was when he was working as a machinist that Ringo struck up a friendship with Roy Trafford, who introduced him to the popular skiffle sound.
