T Bone Burnett used the occasion of Ringo Starr‘s birthday celebration in Beverly Hills to raise what he considers to be an eternal debate. “I do want to say that there is a controversy about Ringo Starr’s drumming,” the producer-emcee said. “The question is, is he a great drummer, or is he the greatest drummer?”
That issue has probably long since been settled for most of the dozens of friends, family and guests who made it to Beverly Hills Garden Park Monday on the occasion of Starr’s 85th. It was not just his percussion skills being extolled, of course. As Burnett told Variety backstage, “You know, Ringo is an
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