Ringo Starr to Get Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – The Beatles
February 4, 2010 by jonathan
Filed under Anglophilia, British Music
It’s definitely a long time coming but the fourth Beatle is going to get his very own place on the Hollywood Walk of fame.
He will be the 2,401st person to get the honor and is due to get it next Monday.
From CBS:
Starr is scheduled to speak at the honors ceremony. His star will be located in front of the Capitol Record building not far from stars of his late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison.
Born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940 in Liverpool, England, Starr once said by the time he was 13 he knew, “I only wanted to be a drummer.”
By the time he was 20, he performed with several bands and changed his name to Ringo Starr because “it sounded cowboyish.”
Congrats Ringo!
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