Ringo Starr Found Sobriety After Years Of Addiction

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Jan. 22, 2023 – At the same time, he spent more time with friends such as the hard-partying Harry Nilsson, The Who drummer Keith Moon, and T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan. In the mid-1970s, Ringo lived with Nilsson and John Lennon in his former bandmate’s rented house for a time, where he continued his hard-partying lifestyle. When he found sobriety in 1988, Ringo admitted people were right to call his post-Beatles life sad.

The good news of getting sober, aside from overcoming addiction and living a healthier life, was that the drummer started making music and performing again. The downside was that Ringo had to face one of his greatest fears while on the road. When he was at the depths of addiction before getting sober, Ringo stopped making music. The live album he cut with his first All-Starr Band (a self-titled 1990 self-titled release) was the first bearing his name since 1983’s Old Wave. The 1989 All-Starr Band tour was his first since drumming for The Beatles.