Sir Ringo Starr had a nasty fall on stage during a recent New Mexico performance.
The Beatles legend and His All-Starr Band were reportedly two hours into their Rio Rancho Events Center concert in Albuquerque on Wednesday night when the 83-year-old tripped and fell.
It is reported the band were playing their encore Give Peace A Chance when Sir Ringo, who was The Beatles’ drummer, fell to the ground.
In a video obtained by TMZ, Sir Ringo can be seen heading up the stairs full of bounce, before the incident left him splayed on the stage floor after landing on his front.
Luckily, he appeared to leap up unfazed and continued to the microphone to join his band in singing the chorus.
Moments later, the music legend cracked a joke about the tumble, telling the audience, ‘I feel over just to tell you that, thank you’ referring to the title of the song.
He then hurried off stage again, while his band wrapped things up.
Sir Ringo is one of two remaining Beatles still alive alongside Sir Paul McCartney.
John Lennon was murdered in 1980 aged 40, while George Harrison died of lung cancer aged 58 in 2001.
Together, the Liverpool quartet dominated the world of music for the 60s before their 1970 split, and remain hugely culturally significant to this day.
Many have traced their eventual break-up as far back as 1966 when the band decided to stop touring, due to being exhausted from a relentless schedule of live shows.
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The sudden death of their manager Brian Epstein in 1967 is also cited as a contributing factor, which left them without managerial support having to handle their own conflicts.
The band also faced creative differences during the final years of the decade, as each embarked on solo material – and when they were together there were disagreements in the studio as they recorded their final album Let It Be.
While many claim it was Paul who first left the band in April 1970, he claims Lennon was in fact the first to quit.
Both Sir Ringo and George Harrison had also previously quit the band, Sir Ringo for two weeks in 1968, and Harrison the year after – although he was later persuaded to return.
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