The sheer force of his fame and celebrity with The Beatles may have shrouded the
fact that Ringo Starr was always first and foremost a musician and, in the early
years after the Fab Four split, he mostly fulfilled his musical ambitions
playing a supporting role to other artists, including solo work by his fellow
Beatles. Starr had his own hit singles and solo albums, too, before putting
together his first All Starr Band in 1989 with some of the leading rock
musicians of the day, including Joe Walsh (The Eagles), Nils Lofgren and
Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band), Rick Danko an...