He introduced Ringo to recordings by Dinah Shore, Sarah Vaughan, and Billy Daniels.Īfter his release from the sanatorium in late 1955, Starkey did not return to school and set out to find a job but was lacking in motivation and discipline his initial attempts at gainful employment proved unsuccessful. In 1954, Ringo's mother married Harry Graves, a huge fan of big band music. As a result, Ringo became interested in drumming. In 1953, Ringo contracted tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium for two years. The sanatorium encouraged their patients to join the hospital band both to stimulate motor skills and to alleviate boredom, leading to Ringo's first exposure to a percussion instrument: a makeshift mallet that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed.
He was tutored twice a week for several years and that got him caught up academically. As a result, Ringo could not read or write at the age of eight. He was discharged from the hospital in May 1948 and his mother kept him out of school. During his year long recovery, he lived away from his family at the Myrtle Street Children's Hospital in Liverpool. When Ringo was six, he had a routine appendectomy for his appendicitis. His father wasn't involved with his son after the divorce and Ringo's mom took on housecleaning jobs before getting a job as a barmaid. His parents separated and divorced when Ringo was a young boy. He is the only child of confectioners Richard and Elsie Gleave.
Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, was born July 7, 1940, in Liverpool, England.
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