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\n \u201cWe\u2019re back here and still doing it, that\u2019s the big thing.\u201d
\n Photo: Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images\n <\/p>\n
Much has been written about Ringo Starr\u2019s natural razzmatazz<\/a> and the outrageous broccoli consumption he undergoes to keep himself fit to tour. But have fans looking to see the current iteration of the 86-year-old\u2019s All-Starr Band considered this fact: You get nearly as much Toto as you do Beatles. This revelation amused the crowd at Starr\u2019s concert at Forest Hills Stadium last night, the drummer\u2019s first time at the venue since the Beatles blew the roof off the joint two nights in a row in 1964.<\/p>\n Things were a bit different 62 years ago, when noise curfews weren\u2019t enforced and you could buy a ticket at the box office for $2.95. (They even began their gigs at 9:50 p.m. back then, which, adjusted for decibel-flation, would now only get them ten minutes before the fines kick in.) For their North American tour, the Fab Four favored songs like \u201cAll My Loving,\u201d \u201cShe Loves You,\u201d and \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d; present-day Starr is more playful, with \u201cOctopus\u2019s Garden,\u201d \u201cYellow Submarine,\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Be Your Man\u201d anchoring a setlist that saw him toggling between drums and lead vocals. One thing too playful: When Steve Lukather, Toto\u2019s front man<\/a> and the second-longest-serving All-Starr, started strumming the chords to \u201cDay Tripper,\u201d his boss shut him down and retorted, \u201cNot that one.\u201d<\/p>\n The significance of the evening was briefly remarked upon by Starr, who acknowledged, in that Liverpudlian lilt of his, it was a full-circle moment. \u201cWe\u2019re back here and still doing it,\u201d he said of performing live music, \u201cthat\u2019s the big thing.\u201d He offered a few peace-and-love signs to a woman near the front of the stage who held a poster saying she was in attendance in \u201962. One tune, the Shirelles\u2019 \u201cBoys,\u201d which the Beatles covered on their debut album, connects all three of Starr\u2019s Forest Hills shows. \u201cI did a song here and I was a bit surprised. I\u2019m going to do the same song, because I do it every night,\u201d he explained. \u201cI was singing it even before that band you\u2019re thinking of. With Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, I started doing this song.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Starr, the king of Queens on October 1. One person not in attendance, despite fans in the audience hoping he would be: Paul McCartney, who\u2019s also in town to be a guest for Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019s Brooklyn residency. (Really, pal? Too busy to do a jam for mollusks in the shade?) But after witnessing Starr close the concert with a jubilant \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends\u201d and an extended jumping-jack sequence in a glittery star blazer, the potential cameo was already forgotten.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re back here and still doing it, that\u2019s the big thing.\u201d Photo: Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images Much has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[31689,2538,8601,9,24,63,122,124,123,44296,134809,8309,134808,20492,20493],"class_list":["post-363012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-forest-hills-stadium","tag-music","tag-neighborhood-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-ringo-starr","tag-steve-lukather","tag-the-beatles","tag-toto","tag-vulture-homepage-lede","tag-vulture-section-lede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ec0f9c218d9ebbb7a1a6d1a96d4358b2f2-2-Ringo.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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