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Maureen Starkey

Maureen Starkey

Born: 1946-08-04 • Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Maureen Starkey Tigrett (born Mary Cox; 4 August 1946 – 30 December 1994), also known as Mo Starkey, was a hairdresser from Liverpool, England, best known as the first wife of Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. When she was a trainee hairdresser in Liverpool, she met him at the Cavern Club, where the Beatles were playing. Starr proposed marriage at the Ad Lib Club in London on 20 January 1965. They married at the Caxton Hall Register Office, London, in 1965, and divorced in 1975.

Filmography
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert poster
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022 • Self (archive footage)
The Beatles 1+ poster
The Beatles 1+
2015
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars poster
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1983 • Self (uncredited)
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here poster
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972 • Self
Let It Be poster
Let It Be
1970 • Self (uncredited)
The Beatles: Something poster
The Beatles: Something
1969 • Self