Black and white photograph of the Beatles who are wearing dark suits and ties with Ringo Starr on the far right of the pictureImage source, Michael Ochs Archive
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Ringo Starr joined The Beatles in 1962 while he was playing Butlin's in Skegness

ByKarl Bird, In Skegness and Jay Vydelingum, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
  • Published18 October 2026

A Lincolnshire holiday camp played a little-known but crucial part in the birth of The Beatles.

A young, bearded Ringo Starr was playing drums with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at the Butlins in Skegness in the summer 1962 when Paul McCartney and John Lennon arrived to try and recruit him to the band.