Ringo (album) Ringo (album) Ringo is the third studio album by Ringo Starr, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 2 on the "Billboard" 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. In Canada, it reached No. 1 on the "RPM" national albums chart. The album is noted for the appearance of all four Beatles, and for its numerous guest stars, something which would become a signature for Starr on many of his subsequent albums and tours. After releasing the standards tribute "Sentimental Journey" and the country and western "Beaucoups
Fifth Beatle Fifth Beatle The fifth Beatle is an informal title that various commentators in the press and entertainment industry have applied to people who were at one point a member of the Beatles, or who had a strong association with the "Fab Four" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) during the group's existence. The "fifth Beatle" claims first appeared in the press immediately upon the band's rise to global fame in 1963–64. The members have offered their own beliefs of the "fifth Beatle": The term is not used to indicate the chronology of band members joining the group.