Sir Ringo Starr just realized the voice he always wanted.
The 84-year-old The Beatles legend, rose to fame after lending his drumming skills to the iconic band alongside the late John Lennon, George Harrison, and Sir Paul McCartney.
While he certainly can “hold a tune”, he reached the epiphany of how everything “worked out” for them because of the songwriting talent each member possessed.
In a conversation with The Sunday Times, he stated, “Well, I always wanted to be someone else. Like Jerry Lee [Lewis] or someone! I mean, I can hold a tune, as long as it’s in my key.”
“And it just worked out with the Beatles because John and Paul were great writers,” Starr added.
The iconic musician continued, “That’s what made us. And I’d get one song. And a couple of them were really good, you know, With a Little Help from My Friends and Yellow Submarine. They’re still huge and I still do them on tour. They wrote me a lot of really nice songs.”
With the release of his latest music album, Look Up and is touring with his band, Ringo Starr and Friends, he admitted that it is still “fun.”
“The band sounds great. We have a fun time and we just do it,” Starr told the outlet of performing.
Recalling his time in the past, he mentioned, “In the late Nineties, I would put in, like, two or three from the new album, and you could feel the room empty. It happens to everybody.”
“I was with (Sir Elton John’s) mother at Wembley Stadium. He came on and said, ‘I’m only going to do the new album.’ Me and his mother left after three tracks because we didn’t know them,” Ringo Starr mentioned, recalling an incident that almost everyone can relate with.
