Ringo Starr’s son was banned from his local pub after they committed what was, in his eyes, an unforgivable sin. The offense? Playing a song by his father’s former band. Zak Starkey had a tenuous relationship with his father and detested comparisons drawn between the two of them. Surprisingly, all this proved was that Starkey was more like Starr than he might have thought.
Zak Starkey and Ringo Starr | David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Ringo Starr’s son didn’t like when people compared him to his father
Like his father, Starkey is a drummer. These days, he appreciates comparisons to Starr, who he described as the greatest living drummer. In his youth, though, he prickled against the constant comparisons and blamed Starr for them.
Zak Starkey | Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
“He would be mentioned in a newspaper as ‘Zak Starr, son of Ringo Starr’ and he would get furious,...
Zak Starkey and Ringo Starr | David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images Ringo Starr’s son didn’t like when people compared him to his father
Like his father, Starkey is a drummer. These days, he appreciates comparisons to Starr, who he described as the greatest living drummer. In his youth, though, he prickled against the constant comparisons and blamed Starr for them.
Zak Starkey | Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
“He would be mentioned in a newspaper as ‘Zak Starr, son of Ringo Starr’ and he would get furious,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle, and sometimes also wanted to be invisible.
“Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as he and Beatle Ringo Starr left a nightclub.”
The accused looks fairly bewildered, as did much of the audience. The story intermittently creeps back into the documentary, making its presence known while Harrison largely ignores it and moves on.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson shows how news items about The Beatles have a tendency to take on lives of their own. Paul McCartney improvises his version of Michael Housego’s article “The End of a Beautiful Friendship,” about Harrison quitting the band, while the rest of the group rolls through old time rock and roll.
“Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as he and Beatle Ringo Starr left a nightclub.”
The accused looks fairly bewildered, as did much of the audience. The story intermittently creeps back into the documentary, making its presence known while Harrison largely ignores it and moves on.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson shows how news items about The Beatles have a tendency to take on lives of their own. Paul McCartney improvises his version of Michael Housego’s article “The End of a Beautiful Friendship,” about Harrison quitting the band, while the rest of the group rolls through old time rock and roll.
- 12/3/2021
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
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