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Headline: Ringo Starr receives honorary doctorate on 86th birthday
Caption: The news came in time to celebrate the former Beatle's 86th birthday at his annual bash in Beverly Hills, California. "I want to thank the University of Liverpool for this honorary degree and for coming all the way to LA to bestow it. I'm really honoured," the BBC reported Starr as saying. The drummer also encouraged attendees to "follow your dreams". "I've been thinking back on my life a lot lately. And when I chose to become a drummer full-time, my family discouraged me. And they could have been right, but they weren't. It all worked out."
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