Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band coming to amphitheater
By ANN WRIGHT
Ann.Wright@gjsentinel.com
One of The Beatles is coming to Grand Junction.
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park.
Ticket presale will begin at 10 a.m. today at ticketmaster.com — presale code: PEACE.
Tickets are likely to sell quickly, and for this concert, no tickets will be held back for the public sale, which will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday.
While the announcement about Starr’s Grand Junction show hit the amphitheater’s social media sites Tuesday morning, Maria Rainsdon has been keeping word of the show’s confirmation on lock down for three months.
Reading a “knew it” comment on Facebook after what is supposed to be a big announcement “is a total letdown,” said Rainsdon, general manager amphitheater, which is managed by OVG360.
Fortunately, this one was a surprise.
“We’ll have a Beatle in Grand Junction. It’s pretty amazing,” she said. “We do expect a sold out crowd.”
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band is considered a “super group,” meaning all the musicians are famous in their own right, she said.
His All Starr Band features Steve Lukather (Toto), Edgar Winter (The Edgar Winter Group), Colin Hay (Men at Work), Warren Ham (Toto, Kansas), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) and Gregg Bissonette (The David Lee Roth Band).
And then there’s Ringo Starr, 83. He has 20 solo studio albums, the first two released in 1970, the same year The Beatles broke up. His latest EP, “Crooked Boy,” was released as a limited edition on Record Store Day, April 20. Starr has nine Grammy Awards, has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a Beatle and a solo artist, has acted in more than 15 films, won an Academy Award, and penned three books.
Starr, who was the drummer for the Beatles, is one of two surviving members of the legendary British band along with Paul McCartney. The two other members are deceased: John Lennon was assassinated outside his New York apartment in 1980 and George Harrison passed away in 2001.
Starr was not an original member of the Fab Four. He joined the group on Aug. 14, 1962 after Lennon invited him to join the Beatles.
The first Beatles’ drummer, Pete Best, was fired to make way for Starr to join the group.
The Beatles remain the top selling music group of all time.
The announcement that Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band will be coming to the amphitheater was a big one, however it won’t be the last for this season, Rainsdon said.
Ticket presale ends at 10 p.m. on Thursday. Individuals wanting to purchase a ticket in person can do so at the Avalon Theatre box office, which is open from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
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