Richard Starkey to be Knighted.

Arise, Sir Richard!

Sir Ringo.

yeah, this will be good - but it was also rumoured back in 2011! 

Again?

This is soooo weird.  Just the other day, the random thought "how unfair is it that Paul is a knight and Ringo isn't" passed through my head, apropos of absolutely nothing.

maybe this will prompt a discussion of how unfairly people have regarded Ringo through the years.  The more I listen to his playing on Beatles records, the more I think he was a genius.  His playing always served the song.  Every choice he made was exactly what the arrangement needed.  Arguably there would have been no Beatles as we know it if John and Paul hadn't persuaded Richie to leave Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

YES! Woo-hoo!

Also, Barry Gibb!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-30/ringo-starr-and-barry-gibb-knighted-in-queens-honours-list/9293960

Though a thirty year old singing "Your Sixteen, Your Beautiful and Your Mine" was a strange choice back then and even stranger today. 

ml1 said:

maybe this will prompt a discussion of how unfairly people have regarded Ringo through the years.  The more I listen to his playing on Beatles records, the more I think he was a genius.  His playing always served the song.  Every choice he made was exactly what the arrangement needed.  Arguably there would have been no Beatles as we know it if John and Paul hadn't persuaded Richie to leave Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

ska said:

Though a thirty year old singing "Your Sixteen, Your Beautiful and Your Mine" was a strange choice back then and even stranger today. 

Oh, to be young again, but, failing that, what sweetness to recollect our youthful passions in song!

(Johnny Burnette was 26 when he first made “You’re Sixteen” a hit. And was it Ringo’s fault he was the oldest Beatle?*)

*Unless you’re convinced, like the great Eddie Deezen, that Ringo was in fact the youngest Beatle. See (please, please see, if you never have): “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” (Zemeckis, 1978).

First scene in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is set in Maplewood, NJ.

The scene in Maplewood is set in Maplewood's only record store - which is now the Wells Fargo bank

Ringo was the oldest Beatle.  George was the youngest.

Well, it's a trick question.
George is the youngest in age,
but Ringo was the last to join the Beatles,
therefore he's the youngest Beatle.
See? The question was,
"Who is the youngest Beatle?"
And that means it's Ringo!

Oh.  I see.  

DaveSchmidt said:

Well, it's a trick question.
George is the youngest in age,
but Ringo was the last to join the Beatles,
therefore he's the youngest Beatle.
See? The question was,
"Who is the youngest Beatle?"
And that means it's Ringo!