Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Beatles. (COMIC: Signs of Life)
The Doctor once gave him the number for the TARDIS telephone. In his eighth incarnation, the Doctor assumed it would be Ringo calling when Winston Churchill contacted him, as very few people had the number. (AUDIO: Their Finest Hour)
When taking Amy to see the Beatles, the Eleventh Doctor wondered why no one wished to see Ringo, to which Amy replied that "there [was] no such thing as a sexy drummer". (GAME: City of the Daleks)
In 1964, Andrea Yates told Sarah Jane Smith that she wanted to make loads of money, marry Ringo Starr and move to Saint-Tropez. (PROSE: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
Starr drumming in 1963. (COMIC: Signs of Life)
Starr and the other Beatles performed their song "Ticket to Ride" on the 13 May 1965 instalment of Top of the Pops. The First Doctor and his companions Vicki Pallister, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright watched it via the Time-Space Visualiser. (TV: The Chase) According to one account which claimed that the Visualiser was a hoax, the people seen on the Visualiser were not the genuine historical figures but human slaves of the Pursuer-Daleks who were made to re-enact the event as a deception for the Doctor and his companions. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)
At some point, the Tenth Doctor took Donna Noble to see the Beatles play "My Bonnie" at The Cavern Club. (COMIC: The Time of My Life)
Alternate timeline[]
In an alternate timeline created by Lenny Kruger in which the Common Men rose to prominence in place of the Beatles, Starr never pursued a musical career. Unlike the other potential Beatles, however, he was not enlisted in the British Army as part of national service due to health problems. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men)
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