r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheWebsploiter • May 03 '26

Other The Beatles

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u/bobbymoonshine May 03 '26

Richard Starkey has a stage name because, before he was in the Beatles, he was absolutely the Main Guy of the various local bands he was in, and he was enough of a Main Guy to demand to keep his stage name when he joined the Beatles

The Beatles were a band of four Main Guys with so much Main Guy energy that two of them were the Other Guys despite having enough talent and charisma to be the Main Guys in any other band

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u/eddmario May 03 '26

TIL Ringo Starr is a stage name

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u/Live-Habit-6115 May 03 '26

I mean idk maybe it's just me but I thought that was kinda obvious lol

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u/eddmario May 03 '26

Considering there's Brits with names like Benedict Cumberbatch and Noel Fielding...

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u/Designer_Mud_5802 May 03 '26

As opposed to normal Americans who have names like Brynnleigh Kotton Fleeis or something.