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NASA celebrated Ringo Starr’s 83rd birthday on Friday by blasting the voice of the Beatles drummer “across the universe.”
“Happy 83rd birthday, @RingoStarrMusic! Right now, we’re beaming your message of #PeaceAndLove across the universe toward Stephan’s Quintet via the Deep Space Network, our 24/7 communications link with spacecraft exploring the cosmos,” NASA tweeted. “Here’s to many more orbits to come!”
A pre-recorded message of Starr saying his annual “peace and love” chant was beamed out from a Barstow, Calif., station toward a grouping of five galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet on Friday at noon, The Messenger reported.
For the last 15 years, Starr has marked his birthday each year by leading friends in the chant of “peace and love,” according to Variety.
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Paul McCartney may have wanted to share two birthday posts this week, but it made more sense for them to "Come Together."
The legendary singer-songwriter, 77, took a few moments on Friday to celebrate two very important men in his life on their shared birthday: Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr, and his late father James McCartney.
"Happy Birthday to two of my heroes," McCartney wrote alongside photos of both men.
"It’s Ringo and my Dad’s birthday so let’s have a great day to celebrate these two great people - Paul"
For Starr, McCartney shared a recent shot of the famed drummer as he threw up his signature peace sign. And for his father, McCartney shared a throwback black-and-white baby pic of him standing next to his mother, Mary. James died back in 1976.
Throwback image of Paul McCartney's parents.
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Sir Ringo Starr may be 83 today, but he seems to be getting younger with his ever-youthful vigour.
As is his wish every year, The Beatles drummer took to social media urging fans around the world to make peace hand signs and wish each other “Peace and Love”.
In an Instagram video, he said: “The best gift you could give me is, as you know, Peace and Love with the sign, Peace and Love.
“So if you want to join me at Noon your local time July 7, 2023. And wherever you are, riding on horses, down the mine, on a bus, it doesn’t matter, hanging out in the park.
“Remember say or just even think, ‘Peace and Love!’ Thank you, Ringo, thanks you, thank you. Peace and love.”
Sir Paul McCartney has sent his best wishes to his fellow surviving Beatle on Instagram.
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Beatles guitarist George Harrison hoped to celebrate the new year at a hip London club, but the doorman insulted him to his face when his clothes weren’t up to snuff.By the middle of 1964, there weren’t many places George Harrison could go and not be known. And there weren’t many places — restaurants, clubs — that wouldn’t welcome a world-famous member of The Beatles. Yet the guitarist found one, and the doorman insulted George to his face when his clothes didn’t meet the dress code.
If the Beatles were world-famous by the middle of 1964, then they were legends in the making in late 1966.
Harrison and his bandmates traded their impersonal raucous live performances for studio devotion, and it paid off with seminal albums such as Rubber Soul and 1966’s Revolver. The Fab Four had also starred in two massively successful and popular movies — A Hard Day’s Night and Help!.
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Paul McCartney is a genius when it comes to songwriting. The British-born former Beatle knows how to captivate, educate and even obfuscate when it comes to his message and lyrics. For evidence of this look no further than the hit song by the former Mop Tops, “Let It Be.”Why is this song such a work of genius craftsmanship? Even though Beatle John Lennon has said, “I don’t know what [Paul was] thinking when he writes ‘Let It Be’.” We think we do. Keep reading to find out.
The Beatles were a comet. The one that burned the brightest. Formed in 1960 by young teenagers in Liverpool, England, the band broke up in 1969 or 1970, depending on how you want to count it. Their final album was the 1970 release, Let It Be, which recently earned renewed attention thanks to the elaborate 2021 docu-series on Disney+, The Beatles: Get Back.
The docu-series shows the Fab Four in 1968 working on their final album under a time crunch, thanks to a movie that Ringo Starr was set to shoot. But there is more happening, guitarist George Harrison quits the band for a few days. Frontmen John Lennon and Paul McCartney are both clinging to their twin-flame artistic relationship and are constantly at odds. Both men are also shadowed by new love interests, Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney. In Get Back, we see a band on the edge. But through tension can come great art.
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Ringo Starr says The Beatles were very amused at the big “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory of the late ’60s, which suggested Paul McCartney had died and was replaced by a lookalike.
“We only ever had one that stuck. That was ‘Paul is dead.’ And there were some songs people pointed out as being ‘secret,'” Ringo, who turns 83 on July 7, tells Vulture when asked to pick his favorite Beatles conspiracy theory. He explains that the whole “secret song” thing was just them being “silly.”
“John (Lennon), by accident, learned how to play a tape backwards, and we put that to full use. So we’d just do something silly at the end of a track and it’d be all over the newspapers and on the radio,” he explains. “They’re actually singing, ‘Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ It just made us all laugh.”
He notes, “All of those interesting things we said were not that interesting. We had a great laugh about that. Look at what they’re saying now.”
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Ringo Starr has named what he believes to be his “career-defining” Beatles song in a new interview with Vulture, settling on the band’s debut single Love Me Do as his pick.
“Because it was the first song, my answer is Love Me Do." Starr says. "We were on vinyl. We made a record. Even though when I got to the studio, George Martin had a session guy for the drums, Andy White, but I played on it anyway.
“He played it, I played it — he’s on the album, I think, and I’m on the single, so go figure. We were just blessed that George Martin took a chance on us because many record labels sent us down.”
Ordinarily, a drummer naming his band’s first-ever single as a career-defining moment would be interesting, but not wholly surprising. Love Me Do features a stomping, swampy shuffle, complete with handclaps and percussion.
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Here’s wishing Ringo Starr a very happy 82nd birthday filled, of course, with peace and love!
As previously reported, the former Beatles drummer is marking the occasion with the latest installment of his annual “Peace and Love” birthday celebration. This year’s event will feature Ringo gathering privately in Los Angeles with wife Barbara, some of his All Starr Band mates and several other celebrity friends to give a “Peace and Love” salute at noon local time.
Taking part in the celebration will be All Starr Band members Steve Lukather, Edgar Winter, Colin Hay, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette, as well as Benmont Tench, Richard Marx, Matt Sorum, Jim Keltner, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Perry, Diane Warren, and the late Roy Orbison‘s sons Roy Jr. and Alex.
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On November 7, 2023, a one-volume edition of THE LYRICS: 1956 to the Present will be published in paperback, featuring additional commentaries on iconic songs spanning Paul McCartney’s unparalleled musical career.
The No. 1 New York Times bestselling book to be released in paperback with seven new song commentaries from our greatest living songwriter, including:
Bluebird
Day Tripper
English Tea
Every Night
Hello Goodbye
Magical Mystery Tour
Step Inside Love
When THE LYRICS published in 2021 to worldwide acclaim, it was heralded as a one-of-a-kind self-portrait of McCartney, earning Book of the Year by Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, and winning a British Book Award. Critics revelled in “how deeply he is steeped in literary history and how much his output as a songwriter has in common with the works of the likes of Dickens and Shakespeare” (New York Times Book Review).
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Ringo Starr. What else remains to be said about him? He was in that band with his friends. He’s now in that other band with his friends. The extra r is for extra talent. Actually, here’s one new thing: The drummer turns 83 on July 7, even though when you remind him of the number he’ll disagree and say “it’s actually 27.” (He thanks broccoli and a “small gym” for his relentlessly youthful disposition.) To celebrate his Saturn’s return of a birthday, Starr encourages everyone to pass along peaceful and loving vibes into the universe, a tradition that dates back to his inaugural Peace & Love Celebration in 2008. So take take a deep breath, throw on some Revolver, and try to transmit them his way at noon. Starr promises he’ll feel them.
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