Ringo Starr has a country album in the works after a moment he heard 'one of the most beautiful country songs' ever. He told Fox News Digital about it as he celebrated turning 84.
Ringo Starr has gone country after all these years. At Ringo's Annual Peace & Love Birthday Celebration at Beverly Hills Garden Park, the Beatles legend revealed what inspired the genre shift. Starr credits T Bone Burnett, the Grammy-winning country icon, telling Fox News Digital, 'I met him Olivia Harrison was reading poems for George. There was about 100 of us there listening, and he was one of them, and I bumped into him since the '70s.
If you listen to all the country stuff he did, ‘What Goes On’ and ‘Act Naturally’ and ‘Honey Don’t,’ he did so much great country music, even in the Beatles. And, you know, he’s called Ringo Starr because that’s a cowboy name, and he wanted to be a cowboy when he was a kid. 'As we all did back in those days; we always all wanted to be Gene Autry.
If we get one more person today from last year, we’re building up. And we’re getting a lot more than one, I’ll tell you that.' As for his health, he said, 'I’m fit as a fiddle and doing good,' sharing that he’d enjoyed a breakfast of croissants and coffee to celebrate. He also told Fox News Digital, 'I work out nearly every day.' WATCH: BEATLES LEGEND RINGO STARR CELEBRATES HIS 84TH BIRTHDAY WITH PEACE AND LOVE Longevity is a recurring theme in Starr’s life.
We are friends. We are pals. We are brothers,' he said of his relationship with McCartney, the only other living member of the legendary band. 'Paul and I will have dinner together; we’re still buddies,' Starr told USA Today in May. 'George and John, I certainly miss them. I’m an only child, and suddenly I had three brothers, and it was great. 'If he comes to LA, we certainly do something. And when I get to England, we’ll do something there. It’s just what we do.
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