Ringo Starr is delivering a good-natured lecture on bone and joint health.
“Get in that gym, loosen up,” he advises. “You can blame me. ‘That Ringo made me come in here.’ ”
Famously fit at 85, the Beatles drummer still scrambles up to his kit with ease. "You know, there's no special way. It's just that no one can do it for you," says Starr, clad in a black track jacket, a peace-sign necklace and his ever-present shades. "You've got to get out of bed and do it."
His new album, “Long Long Road,” is out April 24, again cowritten and produced by T Bone Burnett with guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and St. Vincent. It’s Starr’s third country album − after 1970’s “Beaucoups of Blues” and last year’s “Look Up” − and he’ll chase it with a tour with his long-running All-Starr Band in May and June.
After the success of his 2025 collaboration with Burnett, “we just sort of thought, let's do another one,” he says. “I sing, I play drums. He puts some meat on them. And it’s worked really well.”
