Ringo Starr has celebrated his 86th birthday by receiving an honorary degree from the University of Liverpool.<\/p>\n
The Beatles star said he was “really honoured” to be conferred as an honorary doctor of music at a private ceremony in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Starr – whose real name is Sir Richard Starkey – urged all graduates back in his home city to “follow your dreams” like he did when he chose to become a full-time drummer despite his parents’ disapproval.<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place before Starr’s annual “Peace & Love” birthday celebration in Beverly Hills Park.<\/p>\n
He said: “I want to thank the University of Liverpool for this honorary degree and for coming all the way to LA to bestow it – I’m really honoured.”<\/p>\n
While he now lives in California, Starr said he would “always love” his hometown.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been thinking back on my life a lot lately and when I chose to become a drummer full time my family discouraged me,” he said. <\/p>\n
“And they could have been right but they weren’t – it all worked out. <\/p>\n
“So to all the graduates back in Liverpool – I send peace and love and want to say don’t be afraid to follow your dreams, or take that right turn and see where it goes. <\/p>\n
“It could lead to an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr has celebrated his 86th birthday by receiving an honorary degree from the University of Liverpool. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}