Ringo Starr, 84, health update as he cancels US tour completely and statement issued

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was forced to miss his performance successful Philadelphia connected Tuesday and has besides axed the Radio City Music Hall gig successful New York City aft falling ill

Ringo Starr has cancelled the remaining shows of his US circuit owed to illness.

The erstwhile Beatles drummer was forced to miss his performance successful Philadelphia connected Tuesday and has besides axed the Radio City Music Hall gig successful New York City connected Wednesday night.

A societal media connection read: “Ringo has travel down with a acold and aft consulting a doc helium was advised to cancel these 2 remaining shows and get rest. As always, Ringo and the All Starrs nonstop bid and emotion to their fans and anticipation to spot them soon."

Refunds are being fixed to fans who had tickets for the 2 cancelled dates.

The 84-year-old instrumentalist and his All Starr Band kicked disconnected the tally connected September 7 and played 10 shows successful the States, with Ringo past onstage connected September 22 successful Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Ringo released the EP 'Crooked Boy' successful April - which features the Strokes' guitarist Nick Valensi - and helium explained however helium asked songwriter and shaper Linda Perry to pen much upbeat songs for the project.

He told Variety: "Even connected 'February Sky,' it was each astir the acheronian entity everyplace successful February, truthful that’s an emotion successful there. But I told her, 'There’s gotta beryllium a ace — a interruption successful the entity — and the prima is coming out.' Because each my songs person that. They tin beryllium 'I’m down, I’m this, I’m that… But things are getting better, things are going up.' They ever person a affirmative upside.

"'Rewind Forward' [the rubric opus of his erstwhile EP, from 2023] was similar that. 'Rewind forward' meant, sometimes you’re successful a mood, and if you conscionable backtrack a small and past find that (previous) space, and past transportation connected from that moment, it helps sometimes."

Ringo besides requested much stone songs. He added: "I did. (At first) she wrote 'Crooked Boy,' and it was each astir the communicative of my beingness — you know, I was ill, I was better, I recovered my ain mode "She sent maine a mates of them, and past I called her and I said, 'Linda, constitute maine a stone song!' And she says, 'What’s that?' I said, 'I’ll permission it there. Just constitute maine a stone song.' And she did, of course, and it’s called 'Gonna Need Need Someone'. And it did rock, and she enactment the set together, and past we did a video with the opus playing and we are popping successful and out."

Ringo's bittersweet circuit axe comes aft helium celebrated his 84th day successful July with a connection of “peace and love”.

The erstwhile Beatle was joined by friends including stone prima Joe Walsh, comedian-turned-actor Fred Armisen and instrumentalist Diane Warren – arsenic good arsenic a constricted fig of fans – to people the juncture successful Beverly Hills.

Sir Ringo hosted his yearly “peace and love” infinitesimal astatine midday section time, which saw the drummer pb the assemblage successful chants of his trademark slogan arsenic good arsenic being serenaded by a chorus of blessed birthday. Speaking astir wherefore the infinitesimal resonates with the world, Sir Ringo told the PA quality agency: “I deliberation a batch of it is simply a throwback from the 60s, I was successful that set and past a batch of it’s inactive from the 60s onwards, but radical emotion it.

“People bask the bid and emotion moments, that’s what it’s astir and that’s each I do, bid and love.”

The instrumentalist launched the lawsuit successful 2008 and it has expanded to impact gatherings astir the world.

“I americium getting overwhelmed, determination are truthful galore of you now, we started with similar 50 radical successful 2008,” helium said connected stage. “(I am) genuinely grateful that you each turned up contiguous different I’d beryllium lonely – each I bash is accidental bid and love. That’s each I’m doing and we’re going astir the world, present we’re successful 35 countries, astir of them person gone backmost to bed.”

After his speech, Walsh sang “it’s Ringo’s birthday, blessed day Ringo, we’re going to person a bully time” arsenic Sir Ringo danced and clapped connected signifier to the unrecorded music. Sir Ringo joked with the assemblage “you tin creation if you privation too”, aboriginal signing disconnected saying “I’ll beryllium successful my country eating cake”.

Musicians celebrated Sir Ringo’s euphony with tribute performances from Ben Harper, Gabe Witcher, Willie Watson, Greg Leisz, Don Was, Ben Dickey and Gregg Bissonette with Steve Dudas. US guitarist Walsh, who featured successful stone set Eagles and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, took to the signifier telling the assemblage however the brace archetypal met astatine the Record Plant successful 1973.

“I archetypal had the privilege to conscionable Mr Ringo Starr for a bully old-fashioned late-night jam session. At slightest that is however the fable goes due to the fact that neither Ringo oregon I retrieve overmuch astir that night, but radical that were determination said we were instantly champion friends.

“It indispensable beryllium existent due to the fact that much than 50 years later, present I basal successful the blistering Californian prima too a statue of his fingers – his manus is overmuch smaller than that by the mode – surrounded by a veritable who’s who of who to privation my champion friend, present Sir Ringo Starr, a precise blessed 84th birthday.

“The satellite loves Ringo Starr due to the fact that however could they not, helium was the Beatle you wanted to bent retired with, the beating bosom of the astir beloved philharmonic enactment successful history, the drummer by which each drummers volition beryllium measured for each time, and a antheral who has a precise elemental connection for the world, bid and love.

“Think of the powerfulness we tin harness erstwhile truthful galore of america from truthful galore corners of this large large satellite tin each travel unneurotic astatine the aforesaid time… crook to their neighbour and consecutive up state bid and love.”

Among those paying tribute was Sir Paul McCartney who wished his long-standing person and erstwhile bandmate a “fabulous” birthday.

Alongside a photograph of the brace smiling, Sir Paul said: “Happy day to Ringo and to my Dad! Hope Sir Richard Starkey has a fabulous day.”