Ringo Starr says he has been trying to get Paul McCartney to join his All-Starr Band for years
For over a decade, Ringo Starr has been taking his All-Starr Band on the road with a rotating group of guest stars such as Joe Walsh and Todd Rundgren. At any one show, each of those guests slots in two of their own hits to go along with Ringo's Beatles and solo work.
The one artist he has not been able to get to buy into the concept is former bandmate Paul McCartney.
The former Beatles drummer tried to reunite with the only other surviving member of the legendary group, but joked he would only let the bassist and songwriter perform two of his own songs as part of his band's set.
He said: "I ask Paul every time I put a band together and I promise him two numbers like everybody else. And he seems to be busy at that time!"
Ringo added he also approached guitarist George Harrison, who died in 2001, to play with the group, but he had told him "Ringo, you'll have to give me all of the money!"
The drummer played a four song set with the All Starr band, which currently includes musicians Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Rick Derringer, Richard Page, Wally Palmar and Gregg Bissonette, at a press conference where he announced a new European tour, where Ringo admitted he is glad to be back on the road again.
He said: "We were approached, 'Would you like to do Europe?' So why not? I do it because that's what I do. This is still the dream unfolding from when I was 13."
Ringo also told how he loves his hometown of Liverpool, despite his saying in 2008 there was nothing he missed about it, prompting complaints from locals.
He clarified: "Liverpool is close to my heart, there are people in Liverpool I love ' my family, my friends. They thought it was funny. There were three people from the Wirral who complained. There's lots I miss, of course. I did that joke and I'm still paying for it, it seems."
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