Nancy McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach attend the Stella McCartney Winter 2024 show in Paris, Mar. 04, 2024.

Starr wrote “Octopus’s Garden” with a little uncredited help from his Beatles bandmate George Harrison. The tune, which was sung by Ringo, appeared on The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road.

And it doesn’t sound so old anymore.” Ringo Starr will be the first Beatle to turn 85, and like his surviving bandmate Paul McCartney, he never retired.