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Ringo Starr has become the last of The Beatles to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
The Beatles drummer was already inducted as a member of the iconic Liverpool group but was the last member to be included as a solo member in his own right at the ceremony.
Paul McCartney himself began the process of getting Starr into the Hall as a solo artist. "I talked to Bruce Springsteen and I talked to Dave Grohl, and they both said he should be in," McCartney told Rolling Stone. "And I said I'd do the induction. That took care of it."
In a speech given on the night, McCartney spoke about when the drummer first joined himself, John Lennon and George Harrison on stage: "We got friendly with him, and he used to come in late night when we were playing, and he requested a couple of songs, so we got to know him. And one night our drummer then, Pete Best, wasn't available, so Ringo sat in. And I remember the moment...when he started to play – I think it was Ray Charles, 'What'd I Say', and most of the drummers couldn't nail the drum part. It was a little difficult to do, but Ringo nailed it."
He concluded saying: "And I remember the moment, standing there and looking at John and then looking at George, and the look on our faces was like, fuck you. What is this? And that was the moment, that was the beginning, really, of the Beatles."
The drummer was joined by the late Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Green Day, Bill Withers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the "5" Royales as the Rock and Roll Class of 2015.
