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    Saturday, May 04, 2024

    The Beatles' Ringo Starr bringing 'All Starr Band' to Mohegan Sun

    Barbara Bach, left, and Ringo Starr attend the Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2024-25 ready-to-wear collection presented Monday, March 4, 2024 in Paris. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    Get ready to sing and dance around this fall because Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band can be found at the Mohegan Sun Arena come September.

    The fall tour kicks off in Omaha, Neb., Sept. 12 before stopping at Mohegan Sun on Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale April 26 at 10 a.m.

    Starr, also known as Sir Richard Starkey, was the second — and best known — drummer of the Beatles. Starr replaced Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer in 1962, before they'd achieved fame. According to the biography "Ringo Starr: A Life," fans were initially so upset by Best's firing that one gave guitarist George Harrsion a black eye and Beatles manager Brian Epstein had his tires flattened.

    Starr found success as a solo artist following the Beatles' 1970 breakup, with a string of top-charting singles that decade including "Photograph" and "You're Sixteen."

    Starr formed his All Starr Band in 1989 as a rock supergroup where "everybody on stage is a star in their own right," he said on a 2003 tour. For more than 30 years, some of the biggest pop and rock musicians along with legendary studio musicians have joined the All Starrs.

    The band is in its 15th iteration featuring Starr on vocals, drums and piano, while studio drummer Greg Bissonette handles the lion's share of drums; session musician and Toto guitarist Steve Lukather; "Frankenstein" composer Edgar Winter on saxophone, keys and vocals; Hamish Stuart of the Average White Band on bass and guitar; Warren Ham, who has worked with Kansas and Toto on saxophone and percussion and Colin Hay from Men at Work on guitar and vocals.

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