My favorite Beatle.
Love Ringo. Beatles, forever and all that. There will never be another.
Wow. He doesn’t look at all 77 years old.
Hope he wore a pair of Dress Sketchers to the Ceremony.
I used to get drunk at a joint called "Sir Richard's Raw Bar".
He looks fantastic-——good for him.
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Ringo is the one with the drum,
The others all play with him.
It shows you what a boy can become
Without a sense of rhythm.
Allan Sherman - Pop Hates the Beatles
Britain needs to start knighting men who actually contribute to preserving their sovereignty. Both of them.
I have been listening to The Beatles a lot lately. They had some great stuff. St Peppers and the White Album......lots of drug use around that time from listening to the lyrics. :>)
Good for you, Sir Richard!
As I recall, “Ringo” seemed the most “grounded” of the four.
Keith Richards on Mick Jagger being knighted: “He should have held out for a lordship.”
What I like about Ringo is his utter humility, and yet he was far and away the most professional and accomplished of the bunch when they started; he was already gigging regularly as a pro while they were just forming the band.
Not flashy, but he always spent the time necessary to get a great drum tone (not at all easy) and played exactly what was right for the song (and sometimes very creative things), rather than showing off his chops (which were much better than most people ever heard, but again, not a ‘keith Moon’ type of drummer.
Nice that Barbara Bach is now ‘Lady Starkey’, and they’ve been married 37 years, a pretty significant accomplishment I’d say.
I don’t see what the point was of giving yet another tribute to Ringo. One would think they had received every honorific known to western man, excepting, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Maybe this event happened along with something else, such as the start of a new business venture now accepting investors.
Ringo and Paul are both vegans. There must be something to it,when you reach a certain age. Last year,we did a Beatle tour of Liverpool and it was wonderful!
Ringo’s the best. He doesn’t take himself as seriously as the others — that goes a long way with me.
Ringo deserves this as any Beatles would deserve it. There is a quality about Ringo that makes him the most homespun of the lot. He sinks into normalcy, rises up for some amazing drum playing and then sinks back again into yak and twitter of his homespun roots. He’s the kind of guy that would take his mom to bingo games if she wanted, and hang around to keep her company. He would be there for the close dear ones, and though being in the BEATLES did corrupt him in part (how could it not?), he can throw it off and sink back into his homey origins.
Now I say this without ever meeting Ringo or reading any books on him or even following him on social media. My knowledge is limited. Maybe I’m projecting qualities on him... I don’t know. But he is the oldest of the Beatles and it looks like God continues to favor him. He still has his youthful looks and humor and seems very fortunate...