Ringo Still Amazed By Appetite For Beatles Music

NY (AP) - As he crisscrosses North America with the latest version of his All-Starr Band, former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr tells LAUNCH he's still taken with the audience appetite that exists for Beatles music. The passion is not necessarily a surprise for him, particularly in the wake of the 1 collection's staggering sales success, but Starr says witnessing that interest in person always impresses him.
"You can't imagine that. You know, we're not sitting around in 1964 saying, 'Wow, in 2001, Todd Rundgren's gonna be singing these songs.' It's not something you do. It just rolls on. I mean, it's incredible."

Rundgren toured earlier this summer as part of A Walk Down Abbey Road, a Beatles-tribute package that also featured Heart's Ann Wilson, the Who's John Entwistle, Alan Parsons, and Ambrosia's David Pack.
The latest All-Starr Band, featuring Greg Lake (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople), Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), '80s pop star Howard Jones, and Sheila E., former drummer in Prince's band, plays the FleetBoston Pavilion on Saturday (August 4).