Age: 85
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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
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for Narrator in The Adventures Of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends
Suggested by celticrailwaytravell
The Adventures Of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends is my idea for an all new Thomas TV series which, in my mind, would be a continuation of the classic model series from its seventh series (or season, whatever floats your boat). It would be like series twelve of the Hit model era (except, you know, actually watchable) in that the engines (as well as all of the sets) would be models but would have CGI faces and their own individual voice actors. The human characters however, would all be played by live actors This is my casting of all the characters (from series one through eleven) that I would like to feature in the series. But If any of you would like to add any characters yourselves, by all means, be my guest! One more thing to note is that I'm completely open to people making their own, alternative casting suggestions for any of the characters I have listed. In fact, I'd like to encourage that
