Ringo Starr marks his 85th birthday with a special peace and love ceremony, including the unveiling of a commemorative statue in Liverpool.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reflected on their unique friendship in a new interview. The last surviving members of The Beatles said their bond is particularly important since John Lennon and George Harrison have died.

Starr said he gave “extensive notes” to director Mendes while fact-checking the scripts. The scenes in particular that depicted Starr’s family and his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett (whose casting has not yet been announced), were among the sequences that Starr urged to have reworked.