Skyhooks' Bob “Bongo” Starkie Passes Away, Aged 73
title-track – sold 250,000 copies, making Skyhooks the biggest band in the land and ensuring the future of Mushroom Records . They were a hit creatively and commercially. The critics ... dubbed Bob “Bongo”. “That was a joke that was largely lost on most people,” Red recalls, “because nobody could remember that Ringo Starr was Richard Starkie – hence Bob Starkie
