LOS
ANGELES, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This
July 7, 2022, Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Starkey will be joined on his birthday
by family and friends, including current All Starrs Steve Lukather,
Edgar Winter, Colin Hay, Warren
Ham and Gregg Bissonette, as
well as friends Benmont Tench, Jim
Keltner, Richard Marx,
Matt Sorum, Ed Begley Jr, Linda
Perry, Diane Warren, Roy Jr
and Alex Orbison.
They will gather together in Los
Angeles for Ringo's annual Peace & Love Birthday event,
and at Noon give the traditional "Peace and Love" exclamation. This
year Artemis Music Space Network, through the International Space
Station (ISS) will amplify that message not only to the entire
planet but up into Earth's orbit and to the stars.
At Noon Ringo will signal the Artemis Mission Control Center in
Houston, Texas to beam his message
& music (Ringo's 2021 single release "Let's Change The World"
and his "Star Song" (the music the
stars made upon his birth as mapped out by Artemis) to the
International Space Station (ISS), where it will orbit around the
Earth, passing over many countries and much of the Earth's
population and beaming back down messages of peace and love while
also traveling out to distant stars.
Prior to this musicians, including Langhorne Slim and Sawyer Fredericks, will celebrate Ringo's music
with tribute performances.
The global celebrations continue to be confirmed and so far
include 26, beginning in Sydney,
Australia, where Today's Karl
Stefanovic has the first Noon "Peace & Love" event of
the day. It then continues with events in Tokyo and Osaka
Japan, Moscow, Russia,
Athens, Greece, Ticino
Switzerland, Halle, Germany,
Barcelona and Madrid Spain, Venice, Italy, London, England, Buenos Aires and Chascomús Argentina, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, Lima, Peru,
Panama City, Panama, San Salvador, El
Salvador, Guatemala City,
Guatemala, San Jose Costa Rica, and Stateside in
New York City, New York, Interlochen, MI (Interlochen Center for the
Arts), Cleveland, OH (Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame and Museum), Fairfield,
IA (Marharshi University) and Los
Angeles, California (Ringo usually invites fans to join him
in person however this year the gathering in Los Angeles could not be made public to adhere
to city ordinances). This year also sees the first "Peace and
Love" celebration in South Africa,
where people in Yeoville, Johannesburg will gather at Noon and
participate at the Friday Hartley Shelter.
In advance of July 7, and
continuing through July 10, one of
the event sponsors, The Beatles Channel on SiriusXM, will air
special programming celebrating Ringo's birthday. Starbucks, one of
the events amplifiers, will be playing a special Ringo Playlist in
over 10,000 Starbucks stores, and share with cutomers a special
Peace & Love message from Ringo at Noon local time at
participating locations.
Please watch and share this message from Ringo so people
know how to participate.
And remember - Peace & Love
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Station (ISS) access to amplify Ringo's Peace & Love message
not only to the entire planet but up into the stars.
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amplified Ringo's Peace and Love message since 2018.
Background on Ringo's Peace & Love
Birthdays: Since 2008 Ringo has invited everyone everywhere to
think, say or post #peaceandlove at Noon their local time on
July 7th to fulfill
his birthday wish of a wave of Peace and Love encircling the
planet. Usually Ringo meets with fans in whatever city he is
in, a tradition that began July 7,
2008 when he convened with fans and friends on the streets
in front of the Hard Rock Café in Chicago, passing out cupcakes and joining the
crowd for "Peace and Love" exactly at Noon. In the ensuing years it
has grown enormously and in 2019 there were over 30 Peace &
Love events in countries all around the world including
Argentina - Buenos Aires; Chascomus, Armenia - Yerevan Australia -Sydney, Bolivia - La
Paz, Brazil - Sao
Paulo, Columbia
-Bogota, Costa Rica - San
Jose, Cuba – Habana,
Czech Republic – Prague, El
Salvador - San Salvador, Estonia – Tallin, Finland – Helsinki, Germany - Hamburg and Halle, Italy – Venice, Japan -
Osaka; Tokyo, Panama - Panama
City, Paraguay
-Asunción, Peru –
Lima, Russia – Moscow,
Spain - Barcelona; Madrid, United Kingdom - London; Liverpool, United States - Chicago; Minneapolis, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York City.
2020's pandemic prevented an in-person event, and Ringo instead
moved the celebration to be virtual, hosting "Ringo's Big Birthday
Show," which featured unseen concert and unique performances by
Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Ben
Harper and Dave Grohl,
Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr and Sheila E. The show was
broadcast globally via AXS, YouTube and Ceek and it benefitted
Black Lives Matter Global Network, The David Lynch Foundation,
Musicares and WaterAid. Meanwhile the #peaceandlove posts
came from near and far, with the Mars Rover and The International
Space Station being the first to wish Ringo a Happy Birthday "From
260 miles above our home planet, NASA Astronauts wish Ringo Starr a happy 80th birthday! Since
our orbiting laboratory operates in Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT,
it's officially July 7 – a perfect
date to send #PeaceAndLove to everyone across the universe!
2021 found Ringo celebrating with a few friends and family with
a photo call at his Peace sculpture, with the world celebrating
with their wave of peace and love celebrations globally. Details
about 2022 Peace and Love regional gatherings – both in person and
zoom – can be found on Ringo's Facebook page, and fans have already
confirmed events in Argentina,
Costa Rica, Columbia, El
Salvador, Germany,
Guatemala, Japan, Italy,
Panama, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA.
HISTORY OF RINGO'S ANNUAL JULY
7 PEACE & LOVE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS:
2008 - Chicago, IL Hard Rock
Cafe
2009 - Online campaign including in store salutes at Noon at all
Hard Rock Cafes worldwide
2010 - New York City, NY: Hard
Rock Cafe, Times Square
2011 - Hamburg, Germany: Hard Rock
Cafe
2012 - Nashville, TN: Hard Rock
Café
2013 - Online celebration including a video message from
Ringo
2014 - Los Angeles, CA: Capitol
Records Tower
2015 - Los Angeles, CA: Capitol
Records Tower
2016 - Los Angeles, CA: Capitol
Records Tower
2017 - Los Angeles, CA: Capitol
Records Tower
2018 - Nice, France: Hard Rock
Café
2019 - Los Angeles, CA: Capitol
Records Tower
2020 - Los Angeles, CA: Virtual
celebration, "Ringo's Big Birthday Show"
2021 - Los Angeles, CA: Beverly
Hills Garden Park
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