He was left-handed yet taught himself to play a right-handed drummer kit. This is what many including Starr attribute his unique sound and style to. In the early s, he started to fill in with The Beatles as a drummer for recording sessions — and in , he replaced The Beatles original drummer Pete Best. However, even with those who loved him, he never really got the credit he deserved for his contribution to the band. He wrote or co-wrote many songs and even sang lead vocals sometimes.
Now, at 80, he is still going. He has released approximately 20 songs in the past few years and even celebrated his eightieth with a live-benefit concert. Though McCartney and Starr do not get to spend that much time together, they have remained close friends through the years.
They have both talked openly about their relationship over the years, confirming that they are not attached at the hip but are still great friends. Where are John Lennon and George Harrison laid to rest, and can they be visited? Yoko Ono did not have him interred anywhere, afraid that crazed fans would violate his final resting place.
She had him cremated, and many say that she still has his ashes to this day. There is also a rumor that some of his ashes were spread in Central Park, over the known Strawberry Fields area — a memorial for those to go and be close to Lennon. Harrison was also cremated, and his son and wife took his remains to India.
In his later years, Harrison had converted to Hinduism. According to Hindu traditions, his ashes were scattered by his closest family members along the Ganges River and Yamuna River in Varanasi, India.
According to the New York Times , he was treated for throat cancer in , then a brain tumor and lung cancer a short while later. Ultimately, Harrison passed away in from lung cancer. He died at age 58 in Los Angeles. Ringo Starr, the drummer for The Beatles, is still alive and living in the U. But he was still a Beatle, so everyone who knew them knew his name.
Today, Starr is known as the wealthiest drummer in the world , largely in part to his legacy with The Beatles. Paul McCartney is arguably the most famous Beatle today. Today, McCartney is 76 and still traveling all over the world. Sadly, Harrison fought a long battle with cancer while he was only in his fifties. Ultimately, he passed away in from lung cancer at the age of Although two of their friends have fallen, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the other two members of the Beatles, have soldiered on throughout the years.
He has consistently written and performed ever since the breakup of the Beatles and has even earned renown as a painter. Fans love seeing Starr and McCartney and reliving the glory days of Beatlemania.
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