Artist: Ringo Starr

Bev Bevan, later a founding member of the Move and the Electric Light Orchestra, says a chance meeting with the Beatles years earlier provided a huge ego boost when Paul McCartney praised his drumming. Appearing as part of Denny Laine and the Diplomats - a largely forgotten EMI Records act that ended up seeding more famous bands like the Move, [...]

Baby, you're a Beatles fan: The monthly readers poll for April 2013 is dominated by Fab Four-related stuff - though, ultimately, Deep Purple's terrific new effort topped the newest Something Else! list. A concert souvenir from Ringo Starr's latest guest-packed edition of his All-Starr band charted highest among the Beatles stuff last month, as the ever-affable drummer was joined by [...]

Ringo Starr en México 2013 @AUDITORIO NACIONAL Ringo Starr en México 2012 Cuando:  Miércoles 13 de noviembre, 2013. Donde:  Auditoria Nacional, México, D.F. (Paseo de La Reforma 50, Bosque de Chapultepec I, Miguel Hidalgo, Distrito Federal) Hora:  21 hrs. Precios:  Preferente $1780 Luneta $1280 Balcón $980 Piso 1 $550 Piso [...]

Years ago, low-quality footage surfaced of the Beatles performing “Some Other Guy” at the Cavern Club on October 22, 1962. Filmed by Manchester-based Grenada Television, the brief clip captures the Beatles playing before a packed lunchtime crowd at the Cavern. Originally intended for a program entitled Know the North, its grainy quality made it unsuitable for broadcast - until the [...]

"I'VE got blisters on my fingers!" Helter Skelter by The Beatles

Photo icon gives us the backstory on a few of his famous shots.

This is a project the Electric Light Orchestra should have put out at the turn of the 1980s, a lean, tune-focused affair which dials back the "I Am The Walrus"-era Beatles obsessions - even while retaining all of Jeff Lynne's trademark hooky songcraft. Of course, two decades later - following the defection of every former ELO member save for keyboardist [...]

Tim Presley's White Fence boils rock and roll down to its primitive essence. Armed with a four-track, Presley's tunes have a fuzzy quality that makes the songs sound like they're on a dusty old 45 you recently found in your dad's basement. Coming off of his team-up with Ty Seagall , Presley's latest, Cyclops Reap is a slice of lo-fi garage rock that is short on originality, but what it lacks in groundbreaking song structures it more than makes up for with a [...]

For the next few columns, Deep Beatles shines a spotlight on their BBC performances. Before incessant screaming and the rigors of touring took their toll, the Beatles had become one of the most polished live bands on the road. From 1962-1965, the group performed on 52 BBC programs, beginning with a March 1, 1962 appearance on "Teenager's Turn-Here We Go," [...]

Don't let the goofball demeanor fool you: Ringo Starr is the model of consistency these days, as solid and professional a frontman as there is - and maestro of one of the last decades' most reliably entertaining guest-packed tours. So the question for any All-Starr concert comes down to the chemistry among the patch-work amalgam of musicians he assembles on [...]

Just back from another well-received round of shows with the All-Starr Band, Gregg Rolie continues working on a new solo release - the Santana/Journey co-founder's first since 2011. Rolie posted a new photo with Frenchie Smith and Sean Rolie, taken at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Texas, as they were "finishing mixes on new material." Austin-based Smith has worked as [...]

Filed under: News Pop Chart Lab We here at Spinner enjoy doing some deep research on projects, but going through every Beatles song and figuring out which member played what instrument? That just seems nuts. Luckily, the people ate Pop Chart Lab have the right amount of drive, patience and insanity, as they did just that, mapping out the "helter skelter details" in a box set of infographics. The Beatles [...]

For Grammy award-winning Toto cofounder and sideman to the stars Steve Lukather, getting to know the Beatles' Ringo Starr - really know him, as a person - has been the best part of his stint with the newest All-Starr Band. Lukather is back on the road with a group that includes Santana and Journey co-founder Gregg Rolie, Mr. Mister's Richard [...]

The Beatles, atop Apple Studios in 1969. Those were the days. On this day in January, 44 years ago, The Beatles climbed to the rooftop of Apple Studios in London to give what would be their last public live performance. The unannounced live show was a bit of a stunt, and an improvised ending to the documentary movie they were filming at the time, Let It Be . The movie was to be a fly-on-the-wall look at the Fabs working in the studio, cranking out songs for the planned Get Back [...]

For Steve Lukather, a confirmed Beatlemaniac, the invitation to join Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band was a no-brainer. But first, he had to break the news to everyone in Toto, the band he co-founded in the late 1970s. A first-call sideman for decades, Lukather had nevertheless been the band's stalwart member, the only one to have appeared on every album and [...]

Affably difficult to dislike, yet seldom transcendent as a solo artist, Ringo Starr would become the only ex-Beatle who failed to earn an individual chart-topper in his native Britain. But that doesn't mean there aren't hidden moments to enjoy. In fact, though the bulk of his albums away from the other Fabs have been roundly ignored, there remain a number [...]

With 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, the luminaries of the music world gathered once again to raise money and awareness, this time benefiting the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Held at Madison Square Garden, the nation’s premiere venue, the concert managed to generate upwards of $35 million through ticket sales and donations in a single night, making it one of the most successful benefit events of all time. The night before, in a mere matter of coincidence, Ravi Shankar, one of the men responsible for the first ever rock benefit, The Concert for Bangladesh, also held at Madison Square [...]

2012 marked a number of musical events, including the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ debut single “Love Me Do.” The limited-edition anniversary “Love Me Do” single represents just one of many Fab Four-related products released this past year. The following is an overview of some of the best 2012 releases in CDs, books, DVDs, and general collectibles; any of these [...]

When the New Kids On the Block first appeared, my mother could not resist comparing the hysteria they created with Beatlemania. I, of course, did not believe that the Beatles could have been comparable to the New Kids. I thought they were cool and aspired to such a level of coolness. Flash forward to 1994 when I picked up my copy of "Dookie" by Green Day. I told my mother on the way home that Green Day was going to be the next Beatles. One part revenge, one part Billie Joe Armstrong's faux-English accent. But when I popped [...]

Filed under: News AP Photo, Akira Suemori LONDON (AP) - It's a mystery tour , but it's hardly magical. More than nine miles (14 kilometers) from the striped crosswalk made famous by the Beatles album " Abbey Road ," this drab transit station in east London keeps drawing confused fans of the Fab Four into unwanted jaunts through a gritty, industrial area just south of London's Olympic Stadium.