Ringo Starr

The problem with Paul McCartney is he wrote too many good songs

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Don Bradman, the greatest cricketer of all time, was once asked if he reckoned he could have maintained his batting…

Happiness is a warm gun

17 September 2022 9:00 am

‘Better use your sense,’ advised Bob Dylan: ‘take what you have gathered from coincidence.’ John Higgs is a master of…

I saw a film today, oh boy

4 December 2021 9:00 am

My late friend Alexander Nekrassov loathed the Beatles, which I used to think was a wantonly contrary position akin to…

Death in the streets as anti-government unrest sweeps Iran

6 January 2018 9:00 am

Home In a message for the New Year, as though it were an immemorial custom, Theresa May, the Prime Minister,…

Beat generation: the indispensable Ringo Starr in 1964

Starr quality

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Ringo’s no joke, says James Woodall. He was a genius and the Beatles were lucky to have him 

Oscar syndrome

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Awards ceremonies grow ever sillier and more self-important