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12 Best Rock Star Cameos on The Simpsons

Homer Simpson as Freddie Mercury on The Simpsons

Ringo Starr, “Brush With Greatness” (1991)

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Ringo Starr was the first of The Beatles to appear on The Simpsons (Paul McCartney and George Harrison also made cameos), cropping up way back in Season 2 in an utterly delightful animated cameo. With a little time on his hands, a Simpson-ized Ringo decided to answer some decades-old fan mail—including a letter from a young Marge Bouvier, who sent him one of many portraits she painted of him long before she became a Simpson.

Watch: Ringo Starr answers fan mail

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