Ringo’s new Beatles book is magical history tour of his Ludwig drums and iconic attire | Entertainment | dailyitem.com
Sixty years ago, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles.The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when someone realized it was almost 8 o’clock. They dutifully crammed into the family room, turned on the TV to CBS and waited for “The Ed Sullivan Show” to begin. The Beatles had arrived.Some 73 million of their fellow citizens joined them that night watching The Beatles’ debut in America on Feb. 9, 1964.Astridge slowly got into the music as the camera zoomed in on the drummer. There was Ringo Starr, wailing away on his Ludwig Downbeat oyster black pearl drum kit. “It changed me,” Astridge recalled. “He was my guy. That moment in time made me a Beatles fan and I wanted to be a drummer.”What Astridge became was an historian on all things related to Starr’s Beatles drum kits, launching a website devoted to them and collaborating with Starr on various drum projects.
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