Musician Ringo Starr has revealed that young and upcoming artists find it incredibly tough to make a name for themselves at the beginning of their careers these days. 

He spoke to Bloomberg Businessweek about the struggles new artists face and confessed that it infuriates him to think that no one is helping the next generation to get started:

"I go crazy, because if you want to open for a well-known band you have to pay; management makes you pay. Who is giving back? I did a Ringo tour once and had a local band at every gig open for us just to give them exposure. Nobody is helping anybody.”

He added: "For an artist starting off, there’s no clubs for them to play in. The venues have gone down. It’s very hard now. It’s easier to become a celebrity on a TV show as a band for four months than work solidly. People think it just happened - we just woke up one morning and were Beatles. That’s not true. We worked very hard with the venues and put in the time.”

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