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THE BEATLES DRUMMER Ringo Starr turned 80 years old yesterday.
The Liverpudlian is perhaps the most famous exponent of his craft alive today, but how much do you know about these famous drummers?
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White stripes question is misleading… They claimed to be brother and sister and also married.
@Jack Johnson: She was his ex-wife most of the time they were a band, so i went for no relation.
Ringo is in fierce fine fettle for a man of 80!
@Seán O’Loughlin: certainly is. 9 for me.
My first ever 10/10.
Finally, 2020 has a highlight!
This is a classic:
Meg white is Jack white’s sister but that wasn’t the right answer
@Sorcha: I looked it up, turns out they weren’t related, but married. Who knew !
@Sorcha: jack and Meg white divorced before they found worldwide success with The White Stripea…. incidentally Jack White’s real surname is Gillis …. he took Megs surname …..
It was easier to say after they became relatively famous to say they were brother and sister in interviews, btw Meg never gave interviews so she couldn’t contradict.Jack White , it was a public joke in concerts after a few songs jack would speak to the audience and introduce Meg as his “sister” .
@Laura Healy: I always thought they were married
Octopuses garden is the best song ever written by a drummer, fact! Happy birthday ringo. His son zach has also drummed for the who and oasis
@Brian Dunne: Dave Grohl might disagree
@JC: I’d doubt it, Dave knows the score
A quizz about drummers without mentioning Buddy Rich,, shocking…
@Seymour business: or Ginger Baker
@Seymour business: Or Levon Helm?
@Gary Sheahan: or Charlie watts
Or Stuart Copeland
@alan: or Stewart Copeland
@Nollaig Kelly: beat me to it !
@Seymour business: or Neil Peart
@Dearbhla O Reilly: RIP Neil
Neil Peart was an absolute beast. That Rush show in the point was sensational. RIP.
@Ed:
Vital Signs has Neil doing ownage
@Ed: Never heard he had died.what a musician and songwriter. I can play Exit Stage Left any time of day or night and lose myself. RIP.
4/10. All guesses
I’d like to be
Under the sea
In an octopuses garden
In the shade…
7 out a 10.. Drummer’s are all mental, but never boring I guess..
Wheres Neil Peart?
Tommy Aldridge is one of the most underrated drummers in rock history
A disappointing 10/10. Was hoping for more
I got 8 out of 10 – stumbled on the Ramones Q (should have known!) and Meg not bieng Jack’s sister… Jack White’s 45′th birthday today… incidentally… not that it matters in the grand scheme… ;-)
8/10.
I forgive myself for the Phil Collins one but I really should have got the Ramones one.
Thought your man from the Drake in Finglas would have been there .
9/10. Got it wrong on the Ramones question.
10 outta 10
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