Ringo Starr a number of documentaries and hosted television shows. He also narrated the first two series of the children's television programme "Thomas & Friends" and portrayed "Mr Conductor" during the first season of the PBS children's television series "Shining Time Station". Since 1989, he has toured with thirteen variations of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Starr's musicianship has received praise from other drummers, including Phil Collins and Journey's Steve Smith. He was inducted into the "Modern Drummer" Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, "Rolling Stone" readers named Starr the fifth-greatest drummer of all time. Starr, who was previously inducted
Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr (the last word visually rendered as ) is a career-spanning best-of compilation album by Ringo Starr and is the first such album since the releases of 1975's "Blast from Your Past" and 1989's "". The release of the new collection coincided with the reissue of Starr's first four solo albums for EMI, in digital format, on 28 August 2007. The tracks from 70's and 80' presented on the compilation featured updated mixes of the songs in comparison to the Starr's 90's CD reissues of his earlier