For more than two decades, he was the stoic, unsmiling monolith at the center of American television, a man whose on-camera ...

Ringo Starr may have only seen visions of what America was like in Liverpool, but one band completely shifted his perception of the country he idolised.

The Beatles almost fell at the first hurdle on their journey to stardom. Having gained a name for themselves playing the clubs of Liverpool and Hamburg, the band were on the lookout for a record deal ...