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Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an British and American musician, singer-songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and The Beatles version of "Act Naturally"), as co-writer with the song "What Goes On" and primary writer with "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden". As drummer for The Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills", technically limited by being a left-handed person playing a right-handed kit. Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers, behind drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon and Neil Peart. Starr is the most documented and critically acclaimed actor-Beatle, playing a central role in several Beatles films, and appearing in numerous other movies, both during and after his career with The Beatles. After The Beatles' break-up in 1970, Starr achieved solo musical success with several singles and albums, and recorded with each of his fellow ex-Beatles as they too developed their post-Beatle musical careers. He has also been featured in a number of TV documentaries, hosted TV shows, and narrated the first two series of the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. He currently tours with the All-Starr Band.
Ringo Starr
The Narrator
for The Narrator in Looney Tunes: Back in Action... with Animaniacs! (2024 film)
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Fed up with playing second fiddle to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck demands his own movie from "CEO of Warner Bros. Studios", Nora Rita Norita, Plucky Duck joins in along-side with Daffy since he felt what Daffy felt, but now they're promptly fired by the "Vice-President of Comedy", Kate Houghton. Security guard and aspiring stuntman, D.J. Drake is asked to escort Daffy and Plucky off the studio lot, but the ensuing chase leads to the Batmobile crashing into the studio water tower, which set the Warner Siblings on the loose to run amok in the studio, causing D.J. to also get fired in the process. D.J. returns home with Daffy and Plucky hitching a ride, where he receives a message from his father, action film star, Damian Drake, who is actually a secret agent. Damian instructs his son to travel to Las Vegas, find his associate, Dusty Tails, and find a mystical diamond called the "blue monkey" diamond, before he is shortly thereafter captured by the ACME Corporation, which is revenge of "former-CEO of Warner Bros. Studios" Mr. Plotz. D.J. and Daffy head for Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Bugs' routines collapsing without Daffy, and Tiny Toons' routine collapse without Plucky, so Kate Houghton have to find and rehire Daffy and Plucky or face herself terminated. The Warners inform Kate of the situation, so they head to D.J.'s home where they find Damian's spy car, and use it pursue D.J. and Daffy.
