RINGO CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY WITH HIS ANNUAL PEACE & LOVE CAMPAIGN, CREATING A WAVE OF PEACE AND LOVE OVER THE PLANET ON JULY 7 2024
Photo credit: Scott Robert Ritchie
34 “PEACE & LOVE” CELEBRATIONS CONFIRMED IN COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
NASA RETURNS TO HELP AMPLIFY MESSAGE OF
PEACE AND LOVE INTO THE UNIVERSE
BEN HARPER WITH DON WAS, GABE WITCHER & WILLIE WATSON, GREG LEISZ, BEN DICKEY AND ALL STARR BAND MEMBER GREGG BISSONETTE & STEVE DUDAS TO PERFORM MUSICAL TRIBUTES
Monday July 1, 2024 – This July 7, 2024 Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Starkey will be joined on his birthday by family and friends, including Joe and Marjorie Walsh, Fred Armisen, Ed Begley Jr, Gregg Bissonette, Ben Dickey, Steve Dudas, Ben Harper, Greg Leisz, Asa & Roy Orbison Jr, Matt Sorum, Stephen Stills, Nick Valensi, Diane Warren, Don Was, Willie Watson, Gabe Witcher and more.
They will gather together in Los Angeles for Ringo’s annual Peace & Love Birthday event, and at Noon give the traditional “Peace and Love” exclamation. NASA continues to support spreading the message to and from the universe, including messages of Peace & Love on their socials from across the solar system.
Prior to this musicians, including Ben Harper, Gabe Witcher, Willie Watson, Greg Leisz, Don Was, Ben Dickey and Gregg Bissonnette with Steve Dudas will celebrate Ringo’s music with tribute performances.
“OK Peace & Love here we go again!” said Ringo in a video message. “Thanks for joining me on my birthday. I am so grateful to you all for helping me promote Peace & Love. I want to give special thanks to all the Peace & Love Ambassadors – we are in 34 countries! thanks for doing it – and I gotta thank all the fans, peace & love – just join me in your mind, or on the bus or wherever you are on the 7th of the 7th just go Peace & Love at Noon your local time.”
The global celebrations continue to be confirmed and so far include (listed by time zones):
Sydney, Australia
Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Osaka, Japan
Yerevan, Armenia
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Tallin, Estonia
Ticino, Switzerland
Halle, Germany
Barcelona, Spain
Madrid, Spain
Brescia, Italy
Liverpool, UK
London, UK – Abbey Road Institute
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chascomús, Argentina
São Paulo, Brazil
Recife, Brazil
Uruguay
Amherst, NY USA
New York, USA
Cleveland, USA – Rock Hall
Asuncion, Paraguay
Lima, Peru
Bogota, Columbia
Panama City, Panama
Green Bay, WI USA
Guatemala City, Guatemala
San Jose, Costa Rica
Puebla, Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Las Vegas, NV USA
Los Angeles, USA
Maui, Hawaii, USA
NASA (Outer Space)
The complete list of events will be posted on Ringo’s facebook page.
From now through July 7, The Beatles Channel on SiriusXM (Channel 18), will air special programming celebrating Ringo’s birthday. Listen now to The Beatles Channel on the SiriusXM App link https://sxm.app.link/RingoBirthdayPR
Starbucks will also be supporting Ringo’s peace & Love campaign by playing a special playlist in 15,000 US & Canadian locations and a few key cities throughout South America, Europe & Asia.
Please watch and share this message from Ringo – posting anytime as of July 1, 2024 – so people know how to participate.
And remember – Peace & Love!
We also want to thank our Sponsors Julien’s Auctions, SiriusXM and The Sessions for their support. Thank you also to Jackie Phillips for designing our t-shirts and to Gary and the entire team at Rock Off for making them. And special thanks to ONWTR for keeping everyone hydrated at our event.
MORE ABOUT RINGO:
Ringo recently completed a Spring tour with Ringo and his All Starr Band, and the band will resume with a second set of dates in September.
In April he released his 4th EP Crooked Boy which includes 4 songs all written and produced by Linda Perry – “February Sky,” “Gonna Need Someone,” “Adeline,” and “Crooked Boy.”
Ringo recently published his 8th book, Beats & Threads, through Juliens Auctions. Ringo’s trend setting threads were as signature as the beat of his drums and this book features over 200 images including never before seen photos and extensive details on his drums. Ringo–in collaboration with noted historian, author, speaker, drummer, and vintage drum collector, Gary Astridge–offers for the first-time the most comprehensive look at his legendary Beatles-era drum kits containing decades of research-based information with curated and detailed photographs of these pieces of music history. It is available now through Juliensauctions.com
For More information, please visit Ringo’s website, RingoStarr.com
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HISTORY & BACKGROUND OF RINGO’S ANNUAL JULY 7 PEACE & LOVE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS:
Since 2008 Ringo has invited everyone everywhere to think, say or post #peaceandlove at Noon their local time on July 7th to fulfill his birthday wish of a wave of Peace and Love encircling the planet. Usually Ringo meets with fans in whatever city he is in, a tradition that began July 7, 2008 when he convened with fans and friends on the streets in front of the Hard Rock Café in Chicago, passing out cupcakes and joining the crowd for “Peace and Love” exactly at Noon. In the ensuing years it has grown enormously and in 2019 there were over 30 Peace & Love events in countries all around the world.
2020’s pandemic prevented an in-person event, and Ringo instead moved the celebration to be virtual, hosting “Ringo’s Big Birthday Show,” which featured unseen concert and unique performances by Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Ben Harper and Dave Grohl, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr and Sheila E. The show was broadcast globally via AXS, YouTube and Ceek and it benefitted Black Lives Matter Global Network, The David Lynch Foundation, Musicares and WaterAid. Meanwhile the #peaceandlove posts came from near and far, with the Mars Rover and The International Space Station being the first to wish Ringo a Happy Birthday “From 260 miles above our home planet, NASA Astronauts wish Ringo Starr a happy 80th birthday! Since our orbiting laboratory operates in Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, it’s officially July 7 – a perfect date to send #PeaceAndLove to everyone across the universe!”
2021 found Ringo celebrating with a few friends and family with a photo call at his Peace sculpture, with the world celebrating with their wave of peace and love celebrations globally.
In 2022, Ringo welcomed friends, family and the media to his Peace sculpture and over 30 Peace and Love regional events happened around the globe. In addition Ringo’s star song – the sound the stars made when he was born along with a recording of him saying “Peace & Love” – was beamed out into space and to the International Space Station (ISS) where it orbited around the Earth, passing over many countries and much of the Earth’s population beaming back down messages of peace and love while also traveling out to distant stars. In 2023, Ringo returned to the Peace sculpture to greet friends, family and the media while over 30 Peace and Love events kept the wave of peace and love traveling around the world. While NASA help spread the message to the universe and by beaming at Noon PST a pre-recorded message from Ringo from Barstow California based station in the Deep Space Network.
2008 – Chicago, IL Hard Rock Cafe
2009 –Online campaign including in store salutes at Noon at all Hard Rock Cafes worldwide
2010 – New York City, NY: Hard Rock Cafe, Times Square
2011 – Hamburg, Germany: Hard Rock Cafe
2012 – Nashville, TN: Hard Rock Café
2013 – Online celebration including a video message from Ringo
2014 – Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records Tower
2015 – Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records Tower
2016 – Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records Tower
2017 – Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records Tower
2018 – Nice, France: Hard Rock Café
2019 – Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records Tower
2020 – Los Angeles, CA: Virtual celebration, “Ringo’s Big Birthday Show”
2021 – Los Angeles, CA: Beverly Hills Garden Park
2022 – Los Angeles, CA: Beverly Hills Garden Park
2023 – Los Angeles, CA: Beverly Hills Garden Park
