Tragic Details About Ringo Starr

All four of the Beatles famously hailed from Liverpool, one of England's largest cities and home to large populations of working- and middle-class people. But while John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison all grew up in homes that were secure if not wealthy, Starr's upbringing was a bit more economically unstable. As his childhood neighbor Marie Maguire Crawford was quoted in The Beatles: A Biography,

"He was not a barefoot, ragged child, but like all of the families who lived in the Dingle, he was part of an ongoing struggle to survive."

The Dingle was an especially depressed neighborhood, full of tiny, decrepit homes with poor ventilation. The only place for kids to play was a local park, where all the coal smoke from area chimneys hung thick in the air. Those circumstances were made all the more trying when Starr's father abandoned the family when Ringo was only three years old.

During the Beatles' time together, there was a throughline of disrespect towards Ringo. He was only allowed to sing lead on 11 songs and write two unassisted, and he didn't even get to play on one of the group's earliest and biggest hits. Producer George Martin didn't like the drumming that Starr turned in for "Love Me Do," so he brought in a session drummer named Andy White to play drums on that track and the B-side "P.S. I Love You." Starr was demoted to playing the tambourine and maracas. Keep watching the video to see all the tragic details about Ringo Starr.

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Raised in a rough neighborhood | 0:14
Disrespected by his bandmates | 1:12
Faltering solo career | 2:33
First wife's death | 3:43
Daughter's brain tumors | 5:01

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