Ringo Starr has become the final Beatle to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame as a solo act.
Ringo was invited in by his former bandmate Paul McCartney at a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio over the weekend, who said in his speech: “We got friendly with him, and he used to come in late night when we were playing, and he requested a couple of songs, so we got to know him.”
“And one night our drummer then, Pete Best, wasn’t available, so Ringo sat in. And I remember the moment. I mean, Pete was great, and we had a good time with him. But me, John and George, God bless ’em, were on the front line singing, and now behind us we had this guy we’d never played with before, and I remember the moment when he started to play – I think it was Ray Charles, ‘What’d I Say’, and most of the drummers couldn’t nail the drum part. It was a little difficult to do, but Ringo nailed it.”
Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Green Day, Bill Withers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the ‘5’ Royales also made up the Class Of 2015.