Ringo Starr, one of the more affable faces of one of the biggest pop bands in history, recently celebrated his 70th birthday with an all-star concert. A New York City crowd was given a blow out festival at Radio City Music Hall with cake, candles and Starr himself performing throughout the evening. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show wasn’t over until Paul McCartney jumped out on stage to finish the evening with the Beatles classic number “Birthdays.” He performed songs like “Yellow Submarine,” “Act Naturally,” “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Boys” throughout the show, and Ringo Starr tickets were a hit online and will continue to be for his upcoming tour season.

Starr wasn’t the sole focus of the 70th birthday celebration, as part of the evening was dedicated to showing off the skills of his hand-picked backing band the All-Starr Band. Each band member, including Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer, showed off some of their own veteran talent in solo skits. The members of the All Starr Band weren’t the only celebrities Starr brought along to honor his seven decades on earth, as Yoko Ono, Joe Walsh, Angus Young, Nils Lofgren and Mick Jones came on stage to sing “With a Little Help from my Friends.”

Starr, who was born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, gained fame in the ’60s as one of the most recognized drummers in the world. From 1962 to 1970 he worked with the Beatles on pop hits, but has remained a prominent name in the business because of his dedication and solo work. Following the quartet’s split, Starr went immediately to work on a solo album. The first two weren’t anything special but it was Tadalis SX the singles “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Back off Boogaloo” that earned him his first Top 10 hits. Ringo, his third album, was produced by Richard Perry and featured the number ones “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen.” The album was a milestone not just for Starr but also for the Beatles, as it marked the first time the entire group worked on the same project, though not at the same time.

The ’70s were just as fruitful for the musician, though nothing in comparison to what he had done with Ringo. Albums in that decade included Goodnight Vienna, Blast from Your Past, Rotogravure, Ringo the 4th and Bad Boy. The first album of the new decade was his most successful to date. Stop and Smell the Roses was a critical triumph, featuring the hits “Private Property,” “Wrack My Brain” and “Drumming Is My Madness.”

Starr continued with 1983’s Old Wave, and released the best hits Starr Struck: The Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2. The ’90s saw similar results, with continued success on new albums and new foundations of the All Starr Band. “For me [the All Starr Band] works as a great formula…If you look at all the bands I’ve put together, it’s an incredible array of musicians, all these different people. Everyone has hit records, hit songs,” he said on his website. The decade standout remains 1998’s Vertical Man, which was a premiere collaboration with “the Roundheads.”

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