Ringo Starr and the Steve Miller Band are coming to Mystic Lake Casino (not together, though)

Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Ringo Starr and Steve Miller have booked gigs at Mystic Lake Casino.

Starr will perform Oct. 1 in the casino’s showroom, while Miller’s Aug. 6 show will take place in the outdoor amphitheater. Miller tickets start at $49, Starr’s start at $89 and both go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.

The man born Richard Starkey Jr., now 82, provided lead vocals for a handful of Beatles songs, including “Yellow Submarine,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Don’t Pass Me By” and “Octopus’s Garden.”

When the Beatles split in 1970, Starr quickly released his first solo albums, the standards collection “Sentimental Journey” and the country-inspired “Beaucoups of Blues.” He found his greatest success with 1973’s “Ringo” and its hits “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen.”

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Starr founded the All-Starr Band in 1989 with the idea that “everybody on stage is a star in their own right.” In the years since, he has toured with more than a dozen lineups of the group, which has featured a long line of musicians including Joe Walsh, Billy Preston, Peter Frampton, Jack Bruce, Sheila E., Billy Squier and Richard Marx. During shows, Starr plays selections from his own back catalog as well as tracks from his various bandmates.

The current All-Star Band lineup features Colin Hay (Men at Work), Steve Lukather (Toto), Edgar Winter (“Frankenstein,” “Free Ride”), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band, Paul McCartney), Warren Ham (Bloodrock) and Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth).

Steve Miller Band

Miller founded the Steve Miller Band in 1966 and remains the sole original member. The Milwaukee native spent his early years playing psychedelic blues before moving onto more mainstream arena rock in the ’70s. The group’s biggest hits include “The Joker,” “Take the Money and Run,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Rock’n Me” and “Abracadabra.”

Miller earned headlines in 2016 when he was nominated to the Rock Hall as a solo artist. He told Rolling Stone: “I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I’ll like being in it.” After the induction ceremony, Miller further vented to the magazine in an expletive-filled rant about the ceremony and the music business in general.

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