Does Ringo know he was born on Mahler’s birthday?
mainRingo Starr was 80 today
Or put it another way: Mahler would have been 80 the day that Ringo was born.
I’m starting to see a resemblance.
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Mahler was the greater musician, but Ringo is more well adjusted and probably a better drummer.
Both men made the history of music. For Ringo the consideration was during his lifetime unfortunatly for Mahler it came later for the music he wrote.
Rongo Starr in New York…
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-beatles-february-1964-ringo-starr-holding-camera-in-new-york-19535985.html
Gustav who?
In Italy one of bigest hit of the year is called “Ringo Starr” it s a very efficient and charming song. The song finished third at the Sanremo Festival.
Does Ringo know who Mahler is?
Well according to Wiki, NL is 72 next week (Happy Birthday ! ) on 11-July . So, using the Gustav/Ringo example, 72 years before that would have been 11-July-1876. Let’s look up what happened that day. Not much that actual day – but the US Centennial would have been only a week old and Edison was just about to patent the mimeograph
One month and two days before the first Bayreuth Festival (13.08. 1876).
In Two Hundred Motels, Ringo was a doppelgaenger for Frank Zappa.
(I can’t believe he’s 80.)
Did Mahler realise he was born on Ringo’s birthday?
yeah we was inspiring by him
https://bit.ly/2VUhC4j
Who is Ringo Starr?
Possibly film maker Jason Starr’s long lost cousin?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_SxbptpW-Q
One of Koechlin´s maybe.
It sounds like some kind of spaghetti western.
🙂
That sort of remark is why people dislike classical musicians.
“Or put it another way: Mahler would have been 80 the day that Ringo was born.”
Makes perfect sense. How could it be otherwise?
For example, how could Ringo have been 80 on the day Mahler was born? Where would we be then?
I can just imagine Ringo wielding the hammer in the 6th.
Or acting as „Der Tamboursg’sell“.
I don’t know if Mahler played the drums but he was probably better on them than Ringo.
Happy birthday, Mr. Starkey!
The Beatles certainly influenced worldwide culture *orders of magnitude* more than Mahler did. The four lads will be remembered as the catalysts for a major cultural upheaval – the unleashing of the power of youth – that is still being felt today.
Mahler is remembered, if at all, only among classical music fans (a microscopic percentage of the total world population) as a by no means universally admired late romantic composer of mainly symphonies. And those fans are aging precipitously.
Headlines announcing Ringo’s birthday have been featured in all the major media.
I have seen no such headlines regarding Mahler’s birthday.
Yes, John Lennon was once probably more popular than Jesus Christ, so the legend says.
Only John Williams (the composer not the guitarist) has topped that by being confused with God.
“John Lennon was once probably more popular than Jesus Christ, so the legend says.”
Yes, but if Jesus Christ had said something along the lines of: “Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can”, I think he would probably have meant it.
In effect, He did.
“Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'”
–Matthew 19:21
“Headlines announcing Ringo’s birthday have been featured in all the major media.
I have seen no such headlines regarding Mahler’s birthday.”
(1) Nothing better to write about then? (2) That’s because he’s dead and forgotten except by classical music lovers.
I performed a rough experiment. Google search results:
Ringo Starr – 13,800,000 results
Mahler – 21,800,000 results
Crude, yes, but maybe things are not that simple.
==Google search results:
That’s an interesting metric. For example
“Bob Dylan” 42.7m search results
Beethoven 107m !
Interesting. I decided to follow your example with the following results (entered as shown, within quotation marks):
Rolling Stones 60,600,000
Beethoven 107,000,000
The Kinks 7,170,000
Abba 80,600,000
Mozart 117,000,000
Led Zeppelin 43,100,000
Berlioz 9,190,000
Dvorak 26,200,000
Tchaikovsky 22,400,000
Deep Purple 35,000,000
Liam Gallagher 8,120,000
David Bowie 48,400,000
Richard Wagner 12,300,000
Brahms 39,100,000
Vivaldi 39,400,000
(No point searching “Oasis”, for example, as the word has numerous uses.)
I wouldn’t read too much into this, other than the impression that interest in classical is not insignificant.
And yes, I know I have too much time on my hands.
“The Beatles certainly influenced worldwide culture *orders of magnitude* more than Mahler did.”
Ahh here we go……
Numbers don’t matter. More people read J K Rowling than Hegel. Relatively few people may be aware of Mahler, but take the classical influence away and pop/rock would not have turned out the way it has. I think even the Beatles would acknowledge that much – George Martin’s contribution, for instance.
Lots of bands around at that time.The “cultural upheaval” would have happened anyway because it was about more than music, much of which was overrated anyway. Contrary to exaggerated claims, life continued much the same as before for a large part of the population.
Paul McCartney seemed to aspire to become a classical composer with his Liverpool Oratorio, with a bit of help from Carl Davis. He obviously wanted more.
Someone needs to photoshop a Star(r)bucks paper cup into that photo of Mahler.
The only photo of Mahler showing him smoking?
No, there’s at least one more
Indeed there is..a group photo :
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/max-rienhardt-gustav-mahler-carl-moll-and-alfred-roller-in-news-photo/82094611?adppopup=true
It was when Mahler met with the Maharishi Yogi. A little known incident in classic rock music history.
Does Ringo know that he also shares a birthday with Doc Severinsen? I wonder what Doc would sound like playing Mahler 5.
Or put it yet another way:
Camille Saint-Saëns would have been 105 the day that John Lennon was born.
An important difference: RS has been infinitely more fortunate in his life than GM was.
The more pertinent question is this: could Mahler have passed for the “clean old man” who was Paul’s Grandfather in “A Hard Day’s Night” – the one whom Ringo was put in charge of looking after? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvyAKJhOcI