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Ringo Starr's rise to fame battling illness and poverty as The Beatles drummer turns 80
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mirror.co.ukStepping out on to the balcony of Liverpool’s Town Hall to the sound of ear-piercing screams from 20,000 fans below, Ringo Starr, the normally happy-go-lucky Beatles drummer, was genuinely astonished.
The year was 1964, Beatlemania was at its height, and the Fab Four – Ringo, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison – were back for a triumphant homecoming.
Returning from a world tour which had catapulted them to stratospheric levels of stardom, they had been given the keys to the city, and a police escort through streets lined with 200,000 hysterical fans.
From his vantage point high up on the balcony, Ringo, who celebrates his 80th birthday on Tuesday, saw more clearly than ever just how far he had come.
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