Ringo Starr: 'I made all my mistakes on stage'

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Regan Morris Los Angeles, California

Ringo Starr talks Beatles, Barry Keoghan and country music with the BBC

"Call me Ringo." That's what the former Beatles drummer says when asked if we should call him Sir.

He joins us at the swanky Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood where rock stars have gathered for decades in a luxury oasis behind the Sunset Strip.

We're here to talk music – specifically Ringo Starr's new country album, Long Long Road.

But first we deal with the honorifics because although he was knighted in 2018 for his services to music, technically, he says, it's wrong to call him Sir Ringo because he's actually "Sir Richard."

Sir Richard laughs. He just wants to talk music, and he's not worried about formalities or titles.…