A Conversation with Ringo Starr – HuffPost 6.6.14

Mike Ragogna: Ringo, with your All Starr Band, it’s clear you’re getting by with a little help from your friends. How did it all start?

Ringo Starr: Well, it started because I was invited to put a band together and go on tour, and I’d never done it before so I just opened the phone book and called all my friends and they all said yes, so the first tour sounded like an orchestra. It worked so well I just sort of kept it up and kept it going and I’ve gone two years now with this band. You know the dynamics, Todd Rundgren we’d had in a couple of bands before and Richard Page was in the last band, so I just put all the others in, Gregg Rolie and Steve Lukather and them to give it a different feel. We just all got on so well, it’s nothing you can plan–it’s not that I didn’t get on with the other band, but it wasn’t as close as this band. This has been incredible. Everybody supports each other, we’re all good friends, everybody’s out to dinner with each other, hanging out. It’s functioning like a real band that’s been together forever.