"I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever." -- drummer Ringo Starr, whose hiring by The Beatles (actually manager Brian Epstein) today back in 1962 changed music history. He was hired to replace the fired Pete Best, perhaps the most unlucky musician of the 20th century. Starr played his first concert as their drummer just two days later at Hulme Hall, Birkenhead, England, and the "Fab Four" was launched.
Starr's also been quoted as saying, "I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage." Thank goodness that those "mistakes" didn't stop him.
(photo: The first known photo of Ringo Starr as The Beatles' drummer, rehearsing on August 22, 1962 at the Cavern Club, Liverpool)
