Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Jump up^ His paternal grandfather was born with the surname "Parkin", and later adopted his stepfather's surname, "Starkey".^[5]
2. Jump up^ Starr had first drummed with the Texans on 25 March 1959, at the Mardi Gras club in Liverpool.^[36]
3. Jump up^ Of the nine 78-rpm disks that were cut only one is known to have survived.^[47]
4. Jump up^ Starr sat in for an ill Pete Best during two shows on 5 February 1962.^[50]
5. Jump up^ Martin chose the 4 September version of "Love Me Do" with Starr on drums for the A-side and the 11 September recording of "P.S. I Love You" with Starr on maracas for the B-side.^[51]
6. Jump up^ Epstein then accompanied Nicol to the Melbourne airport where he gave him a cheque and a gold Eterna-matic wrist watch inscribed: "From the Beatles and Brian Epstein to Jimmy – with appreciation and gratitude."^[78] Starr had his tonsils removed later that year during a Christmas holiday.^[79]
7. Jump up^ Starr offered no suggestions for inclusion on the album's historic front cover.^[93]
8. Jump up^ Starr compared his stay in India with a Butlins camp.^[103] His childhood health problems had an enduring effect in the form of allergies and sensitivities to food, and when the Beatles travelled to India he took his own food with him.^[104]
9. Jump up^ During filming he became friends with T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan.^[118]
10. Jump up^ In 1975, these singles and others were included on Starr's first greatest hits compilation, Blast from Your Past, which was the last album released by Apple Records.^[126]
11. Jump up^ In 1981, Harrison included the single on his album Somewhere in England.^[137]
12. Jump up^ Starr experienced his first alcoholic blackout at the age of nine.^[148]
13. Jump up^ The album's production credits read, "Produced by Ringo Starr and Mark Hudson; Re-Produced by Ringo Starr and David Stewart." All of the songs but one were written with members of the Roundheads, although Stewart also has several co-writing credits.
14. Jump up^ "What Goes On" was a pre-Beatles Lennon song to which McCartney added a middle eight in an effort to provide Starr a lead vocal on Rubber Soul.^[201]