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Richard Starkey (7 July 1940 - present)
Years Active: 1959 - present
Associated Acts: The Beatles
Vocal Range: C2 - E5
Significant High Notes:
E5 ("Boys", "I Wanna Be Your Man" Around the Beatles version)
A4 ("Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On", "I Think Therefore I Rock and Roll", "I'm the Greatest", "Liverpool 8", "Matchbox" Pop Go the Beatles 30 July 1963)
G♯4 ("Coochy Coochy", "Don't Hang Up", "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll", "Hey! Baby", "Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses", "Turnaround")
G4 ("All Together Now", "Back Off Boogaloo" 1972 version, "Be My Baby", "Boys" Montreux 1992, "Can She Do It Like She Dances", "Carry That Weight", "Christmas Time Is Here Again!" Beatles version, "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On", "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)", "Drowning in the Sea of Love", "Drumming Is My Madness", "Free Drinks", "Gave It All Up", "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna", "I Keep Forgettin'", "Oh My My", "Out on the Streets", "She's About a Mover", "Slow Down", "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley", "Tango All Night", "We're on the Road Again", "Wings", "Wrack My Brain", "You Can't Fight Lightning" 2017 version)
F♯4 ("Better Days", "Boys", "Can She Do It Like She Dances", "Hard Times" Bad Boy version, "Hey! Baby", "Honey Don't", "I Think Therefore I Rock and Roll", "I Wanna Be Your Man" studio/From Us to You version, "I'll Still Love You", "I'm the Greatest", "It's No Secret", "Memphis in Your Mind", "Men's Room, L.A.", "Mindfield", "Pure Gold", "Send Love Spread Peace", "Shout" Around the Beatles version, "Simple Love Song", "Six O'Clock" extended version, "Stardust", "Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses", "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)", "You've Got a Nice Way")
F4 ("$15 Draw", "All by Myself", "Bye Bye Blackbird', "Dead Giveaway", "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll", "Drowning in the Sea of Love", "Fill in the Blanks", "Gave It All Up", "Give Me Back the Beat", "Hey! Baby", "I'll Still Love You", "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", "Loser's Lounge", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Simple Love Song", "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley", "Snookeroo", "Step Lightly", "Tango All Night", "Tonight", "Vertical Man", "What's My Name", "You Belong to Me", "You Don't Know Me at All", "You're Sixteen")
E4 ("Act Naturally", "All in the Name of Love", "Attention", "Back Off Boogaloo" 1972 and 2017 versions, "Be My Baby", "Blue Turning Grey Over You", "Boys", "Choose Love", "Confirmation", "Coochy Coochy", "Cookin' (In the Kitchen of Love)", "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", "Don't Pass Me By", "Drift Away", "Drumming Is My Madness", "Early 1970", "Electricity", "Elizabeth Reigns", "Everyone Wins", "Give It a Try", "Have You Seen My Baby", "Honey Don't", "Hopeless", "I Don't Believe You", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way", "I'd Be Talking All the Time", "I'm the Greatest", "If It's Love That You Want", "In a Heart Beat", "In My Car", "It Don't Come Easy", "It's No Secret", "Just a Dream", "King of the Kingdom", "Las Brisas", "Laughable", "Love Me Do", "Matchbox", "Memphis in Your Mind", "Mindfield", "Mystery of the Night", "No No Song", "Octopus's Garden", "Oh My My", "OK Ray", "Only You (And You Alone)", "The Other Side of Liverpool", "Out on the Streets", "Photograph", "Picture Show Life", "Red and Black Blues", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Sentimental Journey", "Shake It Up", "She's About a Mover", "Shout" Around the Beatles version, "Slow Down", "Sometimes", "Sure to Fall", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Think About You", "This Be Called a Song", "Turnaround", "Vertical Man", "Wine, Women and Loud Happy Songs", "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Without Her", "Wonderful", "Y Not", "You Bring the Party Down", "You Don't Know Me at All", "You've Got a Nice Way")
E♭4 ("Anthem", "Bad Boy", "Dear Santa", "Early 1970", "Eye to Eye", "Fastest Growing Heartache in the West", "Fill in the Blanks", "For Love", "Free Drinks", "Gone Are the Days", "Harry's Song", "I Know a Place", "I'll Be Fine Anywhere", "I'll Still Love You", "Lady Gaye", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Night and Day", "Occapella", "Octopus's Garden" live 1998 - present, "One", "Runaways", "Satisfied", "Snookeroo", "This Be Called a Song", "Time", "Weight of the World", "What Goes Around", "What in the… World", "Yellow Submarine", "You Better Move On", "You Never Know", "You're Sixteen")
D4 ("Act Naturally", "Alibi", "All in the Name of Love", "Bad Boy", "Bamboula", "Beautiful Night", "The Beatles Seventh Christmas Record", "Better Days", "Blink", "Boys" live 1989 - present, "Bridges", "Call Me", "Choose Love", "The Christmas Dance", "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", "Cryin'", "Dead Giveaway", "Don't Be Cruel", "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", "Don't Hang Up", "Drift Away", "Drowning in the Sea of Love", "Drumming Is My Madness", "Electricity", "Elizabeth Reigns", "Fading In Fading Out", "Fastest Growing Heartache in the West", "Gave It All Up", "Give It a Try", "Give Me Back the Beat", "Golden Blunders", "Good for God", "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna", "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)", "Hard to Be True", "Have You Seen My Baby", "Hopeless", "I Can Help", "I Don't Believe You", "I Wanna Be Your Man" live 1989 - present, "I've Changed My Mind", "If It's Love That You Want", "Imagine Me There", "In a Heart Beat", "In My Car", "Instant Amnesia", "Island in the Sun", "It Don't Come Easy", "Just a Dream", "Let Love Lead", "Life Is Good", "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", "Loser's Lounge", "Love First, Ask Questions Later", "Magic", "Matchbox", "Me and You", "Monkey See - Monkey Do", "Mystery of the Night", "No No Song", "Not Looking Back", "Now That She's Gone Away", "Occapella", "Oh My My", "OK Ray", "Old Time Relovin'", "Oo-Wee", "The Other Side of Liverpool", "Photograph" 2017 version/live 1989 - present, "Picture Show Life", "Postcards from Paradise", "Puppet", "Pure Gold", "Scouse the Mouse", "Sentimental Journey", "Simple Love Song", "Some People", "Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses", "Tango All Night", "Thank God for Music", "Think It Over", "Tonight", "Touch and Go", "We're on the Road Again", "What Goes Around", "What's My Name", "When You Wish Upon a Star", "White Christmas", "Who Needs a Heart", "Who's Your Daddy", "Wine, Women and Loud Happy Songs", "Wings", "Wish I Knew Now (What I Knew Then)", "Without Understanding", "Woman of the Night", "Y Not", "You Belong to Me", "You Can't Fight Lightning" 2017 version, "You Don't Know Me at All", "You Never Know", "You're Sixteen" live 1989 - present)
C♯4 ("Another Beatles Christmas Record", "As Far as We Can Go", "Attention", "Beaucoups of Blues", "Blindman", "Boat Ride", "Bridges", "Dear Santa", "Eye to Eye", "For Love", "Hard Times" 1987 version, "Harry's Song", "Heart on My Sleeve", "I Really Love Her", "I'm Home", "I've Changed My Mind", "If You've Got Trouble", "It's Not Love That You Want", "King of the Kingdom", "La De Da", "Life Is Good", "Liverpool 8", "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing", "Memphis in Your Mind", "Mindfield", "Missouri Loves Company", "Never Without You", "Only You (And You Alone)", "Oo-Wee", "Peace Dream", "Photograph", "Rock Island Line", "Satisfied", "Send Love Spread Peace", "Silent Homecoming", "Six O'Clock", "Stardust", "Trippin' on My Own Tears", "Wake Up", "We're on the Road Again", "What Love Wants to Be", "Winter Wonderland", "Wonderful", "Write One for Me", "Wrong All the Time", "Yellow Submarine", "You Better Move On")
Significant Low Notes:
C♯3 ("Alibi", "Another Beatles Christmas Record", "Attention", "Back Off Boogaloo" live 1998 - present, "Bye Bye Blackbird", "Can't Do It Wrong", "Hard Times" 1987 version, "Harry's Song", "I Think Therefore I Rock and Roll", "I'll Be Fine Anywhere", "I'm Home", "It's Not Love That You Want", "King of the Kingdom", "La De Da", "Liverpool 8", "A Man Like Me", "Missouri Loves Company", "A Mouse Like Me", "Only You (And You Alone)", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Scouse's Dream", "Six O'Clock", "Yellow Submarine" live 1989 - present, "You Always Hurt the One You Love", "You're Sixteen")
C3 ("After All These Years", "Anthem", "Blink", "Blue Turning Grey Over You", "Christmas Eve", "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go", "Don't Pass Me By" 2017 version, "Early 1970", "Easy for Me", "English Garden", "Gave It All Up", "Give It a Try", "Give More Love", "Good for God", "Good Night", "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna", "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?", "Honey Don't" live 1989 - present, "Husbands and Wives", "I Wanna Be Your Man" live 1989 - present, "I Was Walkin'", "If It's Love That You Want", "It Don't Come Easy" live 1989 - present, "King of Broken Hearts", "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", "Living in a Pet Shop", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Never Without You", "No No Song", "Octopus's Garden" 26 January 1969 rehearsal, "Oh My Lord", "Rory and the Hurricanes", "Samba", "Sentimental Journey", "Show Me the Way", "Snookeroo", "So Wrong for So Long", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Thank God for Music", "Time", "Tuff Love", "Weight of the World", "White Christmas", "Winter Wonderland", "Without Her", "You Never Know", "You're Sixteen" live 1989 - present)
B2 ("Attention", "Beaucoups of Blues", "Better Days", "Blindman", "Boat Ride", "Brandy", "The Christmas Dance", "Christmas Time Is Here Again!" I Wanna Be Santa Claus version, "Dear Santa", "Eye to Eye", "Gypsies in Flight", "I Really Love Her", "I Wanna Be Santa Claus", "I'd Be Talking All the Time", "I'll Be Fine Anywhere", "In a Heart Beat", "In Liverpool", "La De Da", "Las Brisas", "The Little Drummer Boy", "Monkey See - Monkey Do", "Not Looking Back", "Now That She's Gone Away", "OK Ray", "The Other Side of Liverpool", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Runaways", "Scouse's Dream", "Standing Still", "Stardust", "Tommy's Holiday Camp", "Wake Up", "Walk with You", "What Love Wants to Be", "When You Wish Upon a Star", "Whispering Grass", "Wine, Women and Loud Happy Songs", "Wings", "Winter Wonderland", "Wrack My Brain", "Write One for Me", "Wrong All the Time")
B♭2 ("Don't Pass Me By" live 1998 - present, "Easy for Me", "Fastest Growing Heartache in the West", "Grow Old with Me", "Husbands and Wives", "I Was Walkin'", "Instant Amnesia", "Living in a Pet Shop", "Night and Day", "Pasodobles", "Rory and the Hurricanes")
A2 ("Blindman", "The Christmas Dance", "Christmas Eve", "Early 1970", "Give More Love", "I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way", "I'm a Fool to Care", "I'm Yours", "Imagine Me There", "Island in the Sun", "It's Not Love That You Want", "The Little Drummer Boy", "Love Don't Last Long", "Love Is", "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing", "Love Me Do", "Me and You", "Not Looking Back", "Oh My Lord", "The Other Side of Liverpool", "R U Ready?", "So Wrong for So Long", "Stardust", "Think About You", "Time", "Walk with You", "Whispering Grass", "Wine, Women and Loud Happy Songs", "You Can't Fight Lightning" 2017 version)
G♯2 ("Dream", "I'm Home", "Let the Rest of the World Go By", "Missouri Loves Company", "Silent Homecoming", "Tommy's Holiday Camp", "Wake Up", "You Always Hurt the One You Love", "You Can't Fight Lightning" Stop and Smell the Roses version)
G2 ("The Beatles Third Christmas Record" "Christmas Comes But Once a Year", "Blue Christmas", "Christmas Eve", "Don't Pass Me By" Beatles version, "Dream", "Everyone Wins", "Fiddle About", "Flying", "Gotta Get Up to Get Down", "I Keep Forgettin'", "I Wanna Be Santa Claus", "Island in the Sun", "Let the Rest of the World Go By", "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)", "Love Don't Last Long", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Not Looking Back", "Octopus's Garden" 26 January 1969 rehearsal, "Pasodobles", "Right Side of the Road", "So Wrong for So Long", "Stardust", "Waiting", "When You Wish Upon a Star", "Whispering Grass", "Without Her", "You Never Know")
F♯2 ("I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way")
F2 ("Flying")
E2 ("The Beatles Third Christmas Record", "Auld Lang Syne", "Better Days", "Going Down", "You Can't Fight Lightning" Stop and Smell the Roses version)
C2 ("Fiddle About", "Good Night" unnumbered rehearsal)
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}
A5 ("Out on the Streets" [1])
G♯5 ("You're Sixteen" [1])
G5 ("Drowning in the Sea of Love" [1])
F5 ("Oh My My" [1], "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" [1])
D5 ("$15 Draw" [1])
C5 ("(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" [1][2], "Sweet Little Sixteen" [3])
B4 ("Drumming Is My Madness" [3])
A4 ("Have You Seen My Baby" [3], "Helter Skelter" [3], "I'd Be Talking All the Time" [5], "Scouse's Dream" [1])
G♯4 ("Together" [3])
G4 ("Love Me Do" [1], "Puppet" [3], "Solid Gold" [3], "Trippin' on My Own Tears" [3])
A2 ("Harry's Song" [2])
G2 ("English Garden" [3])
E2 ("Back Off Boogaloo" Stop and Smell the Roses version [2], "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" [3])
E♭2 ("Only You (And You Alone)" [3])
D2 ("Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses" [1], "Tommy's Holiday Camp" [3])
C2 ("The Beatles Third Christmas Record" "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" [3])
B♭1 ("Spooky Weirdness" [2][3])
G1 ("Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" [2])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
A5 ("Out on the Streets" [1])
G♯5 ("You're Sixteen" [1])
G5 ("Drowning in the Sea of Love" [1])
F5 ("Oh My My" [1], "Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)" [1])
D5 ("$15 Draw" [1])
C5 ("(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" [1][2], "Sweet Little Sixteen" [3])
B4 ("Drumming Is My Madness" [3])
A4 ("Have You Seen My Baby" [3], "Helter Skelter" [3], "I'd Be Talking All the Time" [5], "Scouse's Dream" [1])
G♯4 ("Together" [3])
G4 ("Love Me Do" [1], "Puppet" [3], "Solid Gold" [3], "Trippin' on My Own Tears" [3])
A2 ("Harry's Song" [2])
G2 ("English Garden" [3])
E2 ("Back Off Boogaloo" Stop and Smell the Roses version [2], "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" [3])
E♭2 ("Only You (And You Alone)" [3])
D2 ("Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses" [1], "Tommy's Holiday Camp" [3])
C2 ("The Beatles Third Christmas Record" "Christmas Comes But Once a Year" [3])
B♭1 ("Spooky Weirdness" [2][3])
G1 ("Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)" [2])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Album Ranges}The Beatles:
Please Please Me (1963): B3 - F♯4 - E5
With the Beatles (1963): E3 - F♯4
A Hard Day's Night (1964): n/a
Beatles for Sale (1964): E3 - F♯4
Help! (1965): G3 - E4
Rubber Soul (1965): E3 - B3
Revolver (1966): E♭3 - E♭4
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967): E3 - E4
Magical Mystery Tour (1967): F2 - F3
The Beatles (1968): G2 - E4
Yellow Submarine (1969): E♭3 - G4
Abbey Road (1969): G2 - G4
Let It Be (1970): n/a
Solo:
Sentimental Journey (1970): G2 - F4 - F♯4
Beaucoups of Blues (1970): F♯2 - F4
Ringo (1973): C♯3 - G4 - A4
Goodnight Vienna (1974): B♭2 - F4 - G4
Ringo's Rotogravure (1976): B2 - G♯4
Ringo the 4th (1977): B2 - G4
Bad Boy (1978): G2 - F♯4
Stop and Smell the Roses (1981): B2 - G♯4
Old Wave (1983): E2 - G4
Time Takes Time (1992): B2 - E4
Vertical Man (1998): A2 - F♯4
I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999): G2 - E4 - A4
Ringo Rama (2003): G♯2 - F♯4 - A4
Choose Love (2005): A2 - G4 - G♯4
Liverpool 8 (2008): G2 - E4 - A4
Y Not (2010): G2 - F4
Ringo 2012 (2012): B2 - F♯4 - G4
Postcards from Paradise (2015): G2 - E4
Give More Love (2017): G2 - E4 - G4
What's My Name (2019): E2 - F♯4
Other:
Scouse the Mouse (1977): B♭2 - E♭4
Please Please Me (1963): B3 - F♯4 - E5
With the Beatles (1963): E3 - F♯4
A Hard Day's Night (1964): n/a
Beatles for Sale (1964): E3 - F♯4
Help! (1965): G3 - E4
Rubber Soul (1965): E3 - B3
Revolver (1966): E♭3 - E♭4
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967): E3 - E4
Magical Mystery Tour (1967): F2 - F3
The Beatles (1968): G2 - E4
Yellow Submarine (1969): E♭3 - G4
Abbey Road (1969): G2 - G4
Let It Be (1970): n/a
Solo:
Sentimental Journey (1970): G2 - F4 - F♯4
Beaucoups of Blues (1970): F♯2 - F4
Ringo (1973): C♯3 - G4 - A4
Goodnight Vienna (1974): B♭2 - F4 - G4
Ringo's Rotogravure (1976): B2 - G♯4
Ringo the 4th (1977): B2 - G4
Bad Boy (1978): G2 - F♯4
Stop and Smell the Roses (1981): B2 - G♯4
Old Wave (1983): E2 - G4
Time Takes Time (1992): B2 - E4
Vertical Man (1998): A2 - F♯4
I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999): G2 - E4 - A4
Ringo Rama (2003): G♯2 - F♯4 - A4
Choose Love (2005): A2 - G4 - G♯4
Liverpool 8 (2008): G2 - E4 - A4
Y Not (2010): G2 - F4
Ringo 2012 (2012): B2 - F♯4 - G4
Postcards from Paradise (2015): G2 - E4
Give More Love (2017): G2 - E4 - G4
What's My Name (2019): E2 - F♯4
Other:
Scouse the Mouse (1977): B♭2 - E♭4
