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Backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, tonight, Yoko Ono made a surprising proclamation about Ringo Starr, the final Beatle to enter the institution as a solo artist. “No one is probably going to believe it,” she told Rolling Stone, “but he was the most influential Beatle.”
John Lennon’s widow said that when she entered the Beatles‘ orbit, she came to understand Starr was the most popular member of the band. Her explanation? Starr’s steady, kind personality. “John would go up and down and all that,” she said, “but Ringo was always just very gentle. And he really believed in peace and love.” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...-starr-was-the-most-influential-beatle-61137/
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"Savvier modern drum masters like Matt Helders have also put their finger on this fact that Ringo bore out: it isn’t all about thrashing your way to the forefront, especially when you’ve got wordsmiths in front of you. “Not everybody can play a simple groove for three minutes with no variation and have it mean something,” Helders said. “It sounds easy, but it’s not.”

As Helders brilliantly concluded, “For me, it’s not all about the flashy stuff and hearing some guy show off his chops. I’d rather listen to a drummer who knows how to play to the song.” Ringo personified that tactic behind the kit, and it made The Beatles soar. However, some of the bands and drummers that they helped to inspire missed the point, went bombastic and delivered one-dimensional songs as a result. "

faroutmagazine.co.uk

Busting the myth that Ringo Starr wasn't a great drummer

A musical legend.
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"I could not have been more thrilled to hear that Ringo Starr is to be inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame. As longtime writer for Modern Drummer magazine, I cannot count the number of drummers who have told me that Ringo inspired their passion for drums when they first encountered the music of the Beatles.

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Before Ringo, drum stars were measured by their soloing ability and virtuosity," says Steve Smith. "Ringo's popularity brought forth a new paradigm in how the public saw drummers. We started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect. One of Ringo's great qualities was that he composed very unique and stylistic drum parts for the Beatles songs. His parts are so signature to the songs that you can listen to a Ringo drum part without the rest of the music and still identify the song.

"He was also the first drum star who was not an American by birth," Smith adds. "Ringo was the first `outsider' to join a very exclusive club of drummers, because the drumset was developed in the United States. Ringo was the first of the English rock drummers of the '60s to define the archetype of the present-day rock drummer.

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"Ringo also did the percussion on all the Beatles tracks," Bissonette adds. "Nowadays, bands hire a percussionist to add a percussion track, but in those days, they were just four guys sitting in a room and George Martin would say, `Maybe we could use some percussion,' at which point Ringo would play great-feeling maracas, lots of tambourine, and he even played timpani on `Every Little Thing.' He played bongos and congas, the backs of chairs, and had great musicality."

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"There Will Still Be Calls for Directors’ Cuts​

The Beatles routinely risked commercial security by producing tonal saturation. The band’s output was prodigious. They recorded relentlessly, and gave away more than most rock bands. Singles were not included on albums; the group wrote so much music in so short a time, one of their long-players could only be contained on four sides. The Beatles’ real definitive bio, the Anthology series, was over six hours long, and had to be expanded into a very large book, along with three additional music CDs, each with two discs. Peter Jackson’s eight-hour Get Back is only a fraction of the 18-hour documentary he made of the Let It Be footage for his own personal use.

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Four Movies Means More Music​

The film should encompass four separate theatrical releases for the soundtracks alone. The movie was endorsed by McCartney, Starr, and the families of Lennon and Harrison; Apple Corps. and Sony Music Publishing controls the rights to the majority of Beatles songs. If these are even half as pristine as the tracks Peter Jackson restored for Get Back, it justifies four features.

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Beatle Fans Expect a Degree of Artistic Finesse​

The Beatles were a band of firsts. They broke ground in the arts, including visual disciplines. Richard Lester employed hitherto unused cinematic devices in both movies he directed for the group. His cameras caught ladders and backstage bustle in the frame, breaking conventions of filmmaking. Even the Beatles pushed cinematic barriers for their Magical Mystery Tour, with Ringo playing with filters and other cutting-edge film technology in his role as director. Let’s hope Mendes includes that in what will be the most rhythmic entry of the film series."



www.denofgeek.com

Why It's Impossible to Do a Beatles Biopic in a Single Movie

A definitive biopic of the Beatles can only be told in four movies. The first gods of rock created a multiverse.
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Ringo Starr - February Sky
“February Sky” is the first song of four new original tracks on Ringo Starr’s forthcoming ‘Crooked Boy’ EP, all written and produced by Linda Perry. ‘Crooked Boy’ will be available next Saturday, 4/20 on black and white custom marble vinyl exclusively at indie record stores as part of Record Store Day.
 
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