Ringo Starr Is Going Back to the Scene of a Beatles Legend. Are You Ready?

Ringo Starr Is Going Back to the Scene of a Beatles Legend. Are You Ready?

Some tours are about new music. This one is about unfinished business.

Ringo Starr has just confirmed his first-ever East Coast-only run of dates with his All-Starr Band, and buried in the schedule is a moment that has classic rock fans doing a double-take: on 1 October, Starr steps back onto the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York, for the first time since The Beatles played there in August 1964. Sixty-two years on, the same drummer, a very different world, and a stadium that has been waiting a long time for this.

If you have ever wanted to stand where Beatlemania once stood, this is the closest most of us will ever get.

The full run: ten shows, one unmissable homecoming

The tour opens on 24 September at the State Theater in Easton, Pennsylvania, and closes on 7 October at the Palace Theater in Albany, New York. In between, it threads through some of the East Coast's most storied rooms and sheds.

• 24 September – State Theater, Easton, PA
• 25 September – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY
• 27 September – PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
• 28 September – The Anthem, Washington, DC
• 30 September – MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA
• 1 October – Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY
• 3 October – Cross Insurance Arena, Portland, ME
• 4 October – Toyota Oakdale Theater, Wallingford, CT
• 6 October – American Music Theatre, Lancaster, PA
• 7 October – Palace Theater, Albany, NY

Every stop has its own draw, but it is that Queens date that turns a solid autumn tour into a genuine piece of live music history.

Why Forest Hills Stadium hits differently

Forest Hills Stadium was once one of the loudest places in America. The Beatles played two sold-out shows there on 28 and 29 August 1964, part of the run that cemented American Beatlemania as something bigger than music. Ringo Starr has not stood on that stage since.

Bring that history into 2026, and you get a night that is part concert, part pilgrimage. For long-time Beatles fans, it is a chance to close a loop that has been open for over half a century. For younger fans discovering the catalogue through streaming and reissues, it is a rare opportunity to see one quarter of the most influential band in music history, in the exact venue where it once erupted.

Who is joining him

Starr's All-Starr Band has always been part of the appeal, a rotating cast of genuine hitmakers sharing the stage rather than a single headliner and a backing group. The 2026 line-up brings together Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Buck Johnson, a band built for a set that moves between Beatles staples, Starr's solo catalogue, and each member's own songbook.

The tour also arrives on the back of Starr's twenty-second studio album, Long Long Road, a country-leaning record made with T Bone Burnett, so expect the setlist to reach into some newer territory alongside the songs everyone came to hear.

What this means if you are thinking about going

Northeast routing, storied venues, and a headline date with real historical weight make this one of the more talked-about legacy tours of the year. Demand around milestone shows like the Forest Hills date tends to move fast once tickets are live, so if that night is the one for you, it is worth having your plans sorted before sale day.

For anyone weighing up more than just a ticket, a night like this is exactly where premium access and hospitality change the experience, better sightlines, less time queuing, more time soaking up a show that will not come around again in this form.