Ringo Starr a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. While working at the facility Starkey befriended Roy Trafford, and the two bonded over their shared interest in music. Trafford introduced Starkey to skiffle, and he quickly became a fervent admirer. Starr is the only Beatle who did not have any Irish heritage. Soon after Trafford piqued Starkey's interest in skiffle, the two began rehearsing songs in the manufacturing plant's cellar during their lunch breaks. Trafford recalled: "I played a guitar, and [Ritchie] just made a noise on a box ... Sometimes, he just slapped a biscuit tin with some keys, or banged on the backs
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