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Paul McCartney helps celebrate Ringo Starr's birthday at Radio City Music Hall -- first details

Ringo Starr celebrating with the crowd in New York earlier Wednesday.
Ringo Starr celebrating with the crowd in New York earlier Wednesday.
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We've gotten first word that Ringo Starr's concert has ended. We don't have a set list, but Patti Murawski told us that Paul McCartney sang "Birthday." A partial list of people in attendance were Colin Hay, Olivia Harrison, Sid Bernstein, Yoko Ono, Jeff Lynne, Jim Kelter, Dave Stewart, Mark Rivera, Gary Brooker and Jason Starkey. 

We're told Ringo was presented with a cake in the shape of a  full size drumkit.

We'll post another story when we get more details.

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Comments

  • RMS 1 year ago

    Julian Lennon and Little Steven van Zandt were also onstage at Ringo's birthday show.

  • Jim Cutler 1 year ago

    Jeff Lynne, Joe Walsh, a ton of other people. Feel sorry for the people in front of me who left after the encore thinking that was it. Macca came out for the second encore. Tom Petty was next to him. The roof came off.

  • Margaret 1 year ago

    It was great! When Paul came out I thought the roof would blow! What brotherhood. Happy birthday Ringo. I had a great time.

  • Ira Marlowe 1 year ago

    Happy, Happy Birthday Ringo !!

  • Nancy 1 year ago

    I knew I should have made that show what a bummer.

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