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"I know it, but I don't know the drum bits... But as soon as I walked on it was like being picked up and carried by the music": How Zak Starkey overcame nerves to play drums in a Beatles tribute band at the Cavern Club

He got by with a little help from his famous friends

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Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey was 's****** my pants' before playing The Cavern for the first time

Zak Starkey, son of Sir Ringo Starr, has revealed how he was feeling ahead of playing The Cavern for the first time.

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Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey: I felt carried by the music playing Beatles venue

Starkey joined fellow former Oasis drummer Chris Sharrock for a session alongside the Cavern Club’s Beatles tribute band.

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“I don't know how to do this. You would think I do, but it's not one of these things you ever know how to do”: Why Paul McCartney’s intuition-led attitude to songwriting is worth taking onboard

The Beatles’ legend has long been open about how his songwriting workflow is guided by ideas and not a rigid format

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‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them

Better Man is a genuinely good movie but it’s bombing – and now his song has been disqualified from the Oscars too

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“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

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Snoop Dogg and Sir Paul McCartney 'have a mutual appreciation'

Rap star Snoop Dogg has admitted to being a huge admirer of Sir Paul McCartney.

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“He showed me the Rickenbacker he used with the Beatles at Shea Stadium. It still had the song list taped to the side”: Released weeks before his murder, John Lennon’s final album paired him with some of the era’s finest session guitarists

Hesitant to step back into the spotlight but powered by renewed creative energy, the former Beatle joined forces with Earl Slick, Hugh McCracken, and – though their collaborations weren't released for a number of years – Cheap Trick

Guitar World

"It was an unmitigated disaster." Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals why he and Elton John's mother walked out of one of her son's most legendary stadium shows

Elton John remembers his appearance at 1975's Midsummer Music festival at London's Wembley Stadium being "terrifying": his mum and Ringo Starr were part of the problem

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“George is certainly not a rock player, and neither is Ringo. They’re both swing musicians”: Producer T Bone Burnett on the country roots of the Beatles

"Almost everything he did with the Beatles was country," Burnett says of Starr

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Michael Rosen on importance of rhyme in new We’re Going On A Bear Hunt sequel

The former children’s laureate has teamed up with the original story’s illustrator, Helen Oxenbury, for a new book titled Oh Dear, Look What I Got!

Evening Standard

Sir Ringo Starr 'only wants to be in a band'

Beatles legend Sir Ringo Starr has declared he never wants to be a solo artist and "only wants to be in a band" because he hates the idea of being "out there on my own".

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‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction

Rare drafts of one of Dylan’s best known songs found in journalist’s archive could fetch up to $1 million as part of wider legacy sale

The Guardian - UK

Beatles legend Ringo Starr reveals he 'always wanted' a different singing voice

Ringo Starr "always wanted" a different singing voice but thinks that the real success of the Beatles came from the songwriting.

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"Starr's semi-spoken, shoulder-shrugging vocals sit well with these jaunty but wry earworms": Ringo Starr sets sail for unchartered waters on languid country album Look Up

Beatle goes country

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Why we can’t get enough of a good dynasty drama

House of Guinness is the latest in a long line of TV sagas with a super-rich – albeit dysfunctional – family at its heart. Is it their relatability that keeps us hooked?

Al Jazeera

Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100 billion pixels

‘Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

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Ringo Starr’s "Look Up": Twangy triumph

Produced by T. Bone Burnett, the album showcases Ringo's finest work in decades, supported by a stellar lineup

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Canva cofounder: My AI predictions for 2025

AI-native talent will rise this year as the tech transforms design, leadership, and even decision-making.

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"There’s a strange magnetism to this machine - it’s like it carried its history with it": Ringo Starr's Studer A80 tape machine is going up for auction

The specially modified reel-to-reel recorder has been described as "an integral part of the Beatles' history"

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“A moment I won't forget in a hurry”: Amateur musician unknowingly performs Green Day classic in front of Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong was visiting some of Liverpool's iconic music locations, and happened upon a local musician playing one of his own songs

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“This is gonna make her cry. I don’t care!” Bill Hader, punk rock aficionado, will make his daughter love the Misfits whether she wants to or not

The It, Saturday Night Live and Superbad actor also reveals he grew up listening to hair metal in a new interview with Amoeba Music

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“Mantra Of The Cosmos is like Dylan, Dali and Ginsberg on a rocket ship to the moon to have it with the Clangers.” Oasis' Noel Gallagher joins Shaun Ryder's indie supergroup for new single Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)

Mantra Of The Cosmos and Noel Gallagher team up for new single described as “Free Bird for Mods”

The Guardian - UK

Noel Gallagher joins Shaun Ryder in supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos

‘Like Dylan, Dalí and Ginsberg on a rocketship to the moon to have it with the Clangers’ is how Gallagher describes band which also features Oasis alumni Zak Starkey and Andy Bell

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Noel Gallagher joins Shaun Ryder and Zak Starkey's supergroup for new psychedelic tune

Noel Gallagher has added his vocals to a song by the supergroup featuring former Oasis members Zak Starkey and Andy Bell.

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