While speaking at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2015, McCartney remembered Ringo’s pivotal audition for The Beatles. RIngo played Ray Charles’ ‘What’d I Say’ and “nailed it”. “I remember the moment, just standing there and looking at John and then looking at George, and the look on our faces was all like ‘Fuck. What is this?’ And that was the moment. That was the beginning, really, of The Beatles.”
Like his favourite composer, Ray Charles, Ringo was influenced by music of all different styles, including jazz, country, folk and the blues. However, Ringo favours American blues vocals when it comes to singing, and no artist receives higher praise than LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS, he said the Texan singer was “one of my heroes”.
In 1959, the year he joined Al Caldwell’s Texans, Ringo made earnest moves to get a little closer to Lightnin’ Hopkins. “At 19, I was trying to emigrate to Houston, Texas because Lightnin’ Hopkins lived there, and I got a list from the British Consulate in Liverpool of factories I could get work in and tried to emigrate in a way that teenagers do, or me as a teenager anyway,” he remembered. “They gave us some forms. This friend of mine and I, we filled them in and sent them off. If they’d have just said yes or no, you never know which way my life would have gone.”
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