So far, I only have one Ringo biography in my Beatles library, Alan Clayson's "Ringo Starr: Straight man or joker![]()
?" from 1991, so I guess it's about time we had another! Also, it's out in time for Ringo's 75th birthday this summer.
By the appropriately named Michael Seth Starr, a veteran celebrity biographer who's also the TV editor of the New York Post, "Ringo:With a Little Help" is the title of the new book, published by Backbeat Books in a hardcover.
It's already been out since June 1, so we've been really slow to catch on here! Anyway, here's the blurb:
Ringo: With a Little Help![]()
is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career, from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs, addictions, and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy.
Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle, one of Liverpool's most gritty, rough-and-tumble neighborhoods, he rose from a hardscrabble childhood – marked by serious illnesses, long hospital stays, and little schooling – to emerge, against all odds, as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr, his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable, and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes, a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse, and, ultimately, his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.
ISBN: 9781617131202
UPC: 884088661649
Width: 6.0"
Length: 9.0"
442 pages
?" from 1991, so I guess it's about time we had another! Also, it's out in time for Ringo's 75th birthday this summer.By the appropriately named Michael Seth Starr, a veteran celebrity biographer who's also the TV editor of the New York Post, "Ringo:With a Little Help" is the title of the new book, published by Backbeat Books in a hardcover.
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Ringo: With a Little Help
is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career, from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs, addictions, and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy.Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle, one of Liverpool's most gritty, rough-and-tumble neighborhoods, he rose from a hardscrabble childhood – marked by serious illnesses, long hospital stays, and little schooling – to emerge, against all odds, as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr, his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable, and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes, a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse, and, ultimately, his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.
ISBN: 9781617131202
UPC: 884088661649
Width: 6.0"
Length: 9.0"
442 pages