Double Elvis.

Disgraysand is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Ringo's Star are insane.

A hostile audience nearly ruined his debut as the Beatles drummer because they wanted him out of the band.

French-Canadian separatists in Montreal threatened his life.

He was followed and detained by Mexican Federales, hell-bent, unlocking him up for good.

He nearly killed himself and his wife when he drove his Mercedes into not one but two lampposts in a rainstorm.

And despite a decades long running gag that he wasn't creatively on par with his fellow

fabs and the Beatles,

Ringo Starr made some of the most profound innovations

in rock drumming,

creating some of the greatest drum tracks

on some of the greatest songs of all time.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show,

that wasn't from a great song.

That was a preset loop from my melotron

called Phantom Buddha, MK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights

to breaking up is hard to do by Neil Siddaka. And why would I play you that specific slice of Down Doobidoo Down, Down, Cheese?

Could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on August 19th, 1962, and that was the day that Ringo Starr

played his first gig with The Beatles at the Legendary Cavern Club, a gig that

nearly ended in a riot.

On this episode, hostile audiences, French Canadian separatists, Mexican Federales, and Ringo's

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