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Maureen Starkey
Person

Maureen Starkey

Specialty
Acting
Birth
August 4, 1946 · 48 years
Death
December 30, 1994
Origin
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Professional Trajectory

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.

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