On This Day, August 18, 1962: Ringo Starr plays his first show with The Beatles
On This Day, August 18, 1962…Ringo Starr played his first live gig with The Beatles at the Horticultural Society dance in Birkenhead, England.Ringo had been invited to join the band just four days earlier, on August 14, by John Lennon, with manager Brian Epstein firing the band’s drummer, Pete Best, two days... Read More.