Ludwig Industries will soon march to the beat of a different drummer. The 79-year-old drum-maker, which was made famous in the 1960s by the endorsement of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, is expected to ...

Sixty years ago this month, a boy named Gary Astridge knew nothing about The Beatles. The 7-year-old was celebrating his grandmom’s birthday with his family in Buffalo, New York, when someone realized ...

Ringo Starr was so proud to play a Ludwig drum set during the Beatles’ first televised appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964 that he asked William F. Ludwig II to build a special set for him ...

Stomp, clap, stomp stomp, clap. Stomp, clap, stomp stomp, clap. Stomp, clap, stomp stomp, clap. Electrifying R&B singer Wilson Pickett was in the FAME Studios control room, beating out a rhythm with ...