Beatles drummer Ringo Starr celebrated his 82nd birthday two months ago during a break in his U.S. tour after two All Starr band members got COVID. Starr is back on the road this month playing dates that have been rescheduled twice because of the pandemic.
Starr played Pittsburgh Saturday night, the second show of a three day–no rest days–stand in Pennsylvania this weekend with a show in Easton Friday night and one Sunday night in Philadelphia.
Starr did jumping jacks in time to the music at the end of Saturday’s two-hour show during which Starr took turns being the front man singer, singing while drumming or just playing drums behind the All Starr band stars in their own right Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather, Hamish Stuart and Colin Hay alongside supporting musicians Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette.
Starr is three years older than Joe Biden, yet Starr can playing complicated music from memory, sing songs without fumbling for words and hit his mark on stage without his wife or staffers telling him what to do.
Joe Biden, 79, needs constant long weekends at his Delaware homes where he goes bike riding and falls over.
Biden also has trouble speaking coherently and needs cheat sheets and minders to perform his job.
The North American tour schedule for the 82-year-old Starr and his band does not have many down days. Mostly, the band does three shows in a row on successive days , then a day off before another three in a row. September’s schedule (the tour runs through October 20.
Meanwhile Joe Biden has spent a reported forty percent of his presidency on vacation.
The comparison between the normal, energetic, sharp as a tack 82-year-old Starr with the decrepit, dementia-addled 79-year-old Biden is stunning and makes one realize how much the Biden White House and their media allies have normalized Biden’s lack of capacity to function normally.
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