The world’s richest drummer learnt how to play during a two-year stay in hospital after contracting tuberculosis. Ringo Starr was the drummer for The Beatles and is now said to be worth more than $300million (more than £230million). 

The 84-year-old is still performing and offering drumming masterclasses with a wealth that would have been unthinkable in his childhood growing up in Dingle, Liverpool. Ringo shot to fame alongside the other three-quarters of the Fab Four in the 1960s with…