“Even Joe Walsh got out of bed for it,” he joked. He carried on the tradition today in front of his sculpture in Beverly Hills as he turned 81 years old. Since 2008, Ringo Starr has celebrated his July 7 birthday on by proclaiming “peace and love” at precisely 12 p.m. “It’s Jason,” he announced to the crowd, referring to his son, one of three children.
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“This is a full peace and love day in our house.” And, perhaps, returning that phone call. “Spreading some peace and love today,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Starr still managed to release a five-track EP in March, Zoom In, and has another one ready to debut in September.īut as for Wednesday, his schedule included sharing a meal with family and friends and dedicating the rest of his 81st birthday to the theme of the day. He shared his enthusiasm for being able to attend such an event after an extended period of COVID-19 lockdowns, which forced him to cancel several tours. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including 'Yellow Submarine' and 'With a Little Help.
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and hustled through a series of interviews on the press line to make the 12 p.m. Sir Richard Starkey 2 MBE 3 (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He was an only child, and while his mother doted on him, his father lost interest in family life early on. Starr arrived at the event around 11:40 a.m. Ringo Starr was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, in Liverpool, England. It was a nice day for it, too, with sunny skies and temperatures in the 90210 hovering in the upper 70s. Peace and love,” proclaimed Starr, clad in black Adidas track pants and sneakers paired with a denim jacket and a black T-shirt emblazoned with a rainbow-colored hand flashing the peace sign.
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Starr, who recently released an EP, “Zoom In,” is expected to put out a follow-up EP later this year, and will be seen in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles TV docu-epic this fall.Box Office: Peter Jackson's 'The Beatles: Get Back' Concert Doc Plays to Near-Sellout Crowds I’m still waiting for the gift.”Īnd how does he look better at 81 than most of the attendees decades younger, someone asked? “I don’t know,” he said at first, before deciding to reveal his secret: “I don’t wear a hat, that’s why.” He had, in fact, heard from Paul McCartney already: “He just called me. What had he been doing to celebrate turning 81? “I woke up this morning,” he said, drawing laughs. Two years ago we were at Capitol Records with a lot of guests playing for me and hundreds of people outside.
I do have a mask here if anyone’s complaining,” he joked, pretending to reach inside his jacket for complimentary faceguards.
“Actually, last year, at the height of the pandemic,” Starr said, “because we live here, just Barbara and I ran down here to do it, to keep the tradition up, by the hand. We were laughing in the car saying I’m 18 today because it’s 81 in reverse.”Īs it turned out, Starr and his wife Barbara Bach had stopped by the statue last year at this time, but without any fans or press in attendance, as attention turned toward the streaming special he presented in lieu of a live countdown. “Birthdays are birthdays, you know - you’ve got to live with it, you know?” he told Variety before posing with guests including in-law Joe Walsh and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather. He was turning 81 Wednesday, but said he didn’t pay any mind whether it was an odd number like that or last year’s major round number. (Last year, the event was online-only, and in other years, it’d been based at Hard Rock Cafes around the world.) Probably more fans were staking out the Capitol tower in Hollywood, where the star(r) led global “peace and love” shouts at noon Pacific time in 2014. Starr’s birthday gatherings are usually bigger, pre-announced affairs, with a lot more than the 20 fans who had sussed out the location and were watching from behind a barricade Wednesday. And so Ringo Starr’s annual birthday celebration happened in somewhat furtive fashion Wednesday, as he met with press and posed for photos in front of his peace-sign statue in the park at the corner of Santa Monica and Canon in Beverly Hills.
Sometimes the peace-and-love message has to be celebrated in near-drive-by status, at least when there’s still a pandemic going on and you’re a Beatle trying not to draw a crowd.
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