Tragic Details About Ringo Starr

even though Ringo Starr was a member of the Beatles his success hasn't saved him from the depressing side of life in fact he's had more than his fair share of tough times here are some tragic details of this drummer's life all four of the Beatles famously hailed from Liverpool one of England's largest cities and home to large populations of working and middle-class people but while John Lennon Paul McCartney and George Harrison all grew up in homes that were secured if not wealthy Starr's upbringing was a bit more economically unstable as his childhood neighbor Mary McGuire Crawford was quoted in the Beatles a biography it was not a barefoot ragged child but like all of the families who lived in the Dingle he was part of an ongoing struggle to survive the Dingle was an especially depressed neighborhood full of tiny decrepit homes with poor ventilation the only place for kids to play was a local park where all the cold smoke from area chimneys hung thick in the air those circumstances were made all the more trying when star's father abandoned the family when Ringo was only three years old during the Beatles time together there was a through line of disrespect towards Ringo he was only allowed to sing lead on 11 songs and write two unassisted and he didn't even get to play on one of the group's earliest and biggest hits producer George Martin didn't like the drumming that star turned in for love me do so he brought in a session drummer named Andy White to play drums on that track and the b-side PS I love you Starr was demoted to playing the tambourine and maracas toward the end of the 1960s the band life of the Beatles was famously contentious he got so bad in 1968 for star that he briefly left the band in the middle of recording the White Album as he described the situation I felt I wasn't playing great and I also felt the other three were really happy and I was an outsider while Starr took his family on vacation to Sardinia the other Beatles recorded without him they took bits and pieces of work he'd previously recorded in some new drum work by Paul McCartney to cobble together the rhythmic backing track folk back in the USSR when Starr returned his bandmates at least welcomed him back by covering his drum kit in flowers hey Ringo this is your song for the album we hear your voice on this and no he said you're doing that you're right after the Beatles split up in 1970 all four members enjoyed solo success for his part Starr had eight singles in a row that all reached the top ten in the US including the number one hits photograph and your 16 the albums Ringo and good night Vienna went platinum and gold respectively but then the public seemingly grew tired of what he was offering in 1976 Ringo's rotogravure stalled at number 28 on the US charts and the singles a dose of rock and roll and hey baby tanked as well the 1977 and 1978 albums Ringo the fourth and bad-boy straight-up flopped reaching just number 162 and 129 respectively on the Billboard charts after Starr left his label over a dispute it took him three years to record and release more music with 1981 s stop and smell the roses he enjoyed a modest come back with the number 38 hit racked my brain a song written by former bandmate George Harrison but stop and smell the roses sold so poorly that RCA Records dropped star star met his first wife Maureen Cox at the Cavern Club the venue where the Beatles cut their teeth the two of them wet in 1965 had three children together and the marriage weathered the storm of worldwide fame and attention but just barely and not as it turned out for the long haul does that worry you that the fact that you know you can't go anywhere with him no not really I enjoy myself Coke's had a brief affair with George Harrison after she and Starr grew apart in the mid 70s star struck up a relationship with model Nancy Leigh Andrews leading to a divorce which was finalized in 1975 according to John Lennon's fur wife Cynthia ox was so devastated that she attempted to take her own life by running a motorcycle into a wall she survived but she endured a lengthy cosmetic surgery to correct her facial injuries star and both remarried but they reportedly remained cordial they stayed so friendly in fact that star was with his former wife when she passed away in December 1994 she underwent a bone-marrow transplant from their son Zack that was intended to treat leukemia sadly the procedure didn't completely improve her health and she died from complications of the surgery at age 47 1970 was the year that the Beatles split up but ringo at least had something in his personal life to celebrate that year as his first daughter and third child overall was born lee stocky stayed out of the spotlight for decades unlike some other famous beatles offspring but then she made headlines in the fall of 1995 when she suddenly felt seriously ill after collapsing and then being hospitalized in london lee stocky was diagnosed with a brain tumor after having fluid drained from her skull she was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where a neurosurgeon performed an experimental four-hour operation on her the tumor was removed entirely and she was quickly discharged her father was reportedly by her bedside for the ordeal and he stayed with her in Boston for six weeks after when she underwent eight-minute radiation treatments every day in 2001 the chewer returned and Starkey had to endure more medical treatments but she thankfully managed to survive those as well check out one of our newest videos right here plus even more grunge videos about your favorite stuff a coming soon subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a single one you [Music]

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Length: 6min 19sec (379 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 01 2020