Ringo Starr will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist tonight. The drummer will be the last of The Beatles' to be honored individually. Starr was inducted as a member of the Beatles in 1988. John Lennon was inducted in 1994 as a solo artist. Paul McCartney got down in Cleveland in 1994. George Harrison was posthumously recognized in 2004. Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey in the Dingle, Liverpool, England, joins tonight.

"Well, it's about time," Ringo Starr told ABC News. "I think it's beautiful. I do. I really think it's beautiful, and it's something for me to look forward to."

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will also be inducting Lou Reed, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Stevie Ray Vaughn and his band Double Trouble, Green Day, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bill Withers and The "5" Royales.

Starr told ABC News he learned he was getting the honor from McCartney.

"He called, and he said, 'They want to induct you into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I'll induct you. And will you accept?'" Ringo told ABC News. "So I said, 'Sure. Sure. We can have a night out.' I've found out...that [McCartney] was out to dinner sitting 'round with a couple of other musicians, and no one could believe I wasn't in it. So they worked on it to get me in."

Starr will be inducted by McCartney, who pushed for the drummer's enshrinement after learning Starr was the lone Beatle not to be honoured for his individual music. McCartney told Rolling Stone magazine that he and Lennon began writing songs for Starr because fans were so fond of Starr.

After the Beatles split at the end of the sixties, Ringo hit the charts first. "It Don't Come Easy," which he wrote with George Harrison started a string of hits that included ''Back Off Boogaloo," ''Photograph" and the cover of the song "You're Sixteen." In the midst of his own "lost weekend" or drinking and carousing, Starr put out the anti-drug and booze novelty hit "The No No Song," on his "Goodnight Vienna" album.

"We wrote the line, 'What would you do if I sang out of tune?' for him," McCartney recently told reporters. ''When you think about it, how many people in rock and roll can sing? But Ringo can deliver a song."

Green Day, lead singer/guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool, burst onto the punk scene in the early 1990s. Their "Dookie" album won a Grammy. The anti-Bush album "American Idiot" was turned into Broadway show.

Bill Withers wrote and recorded the standards "Lean On Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine," which have been covered the Temptations, Garth Brooks and Kid Rock. Stevie Wonder will induct Withers.

Lou Reed, who died in 2013 at age 71, wrote the rock classics "Walk On The Wild Side," ''Sweet Jane" and "Heroin." He will be inducted by Patti Smith.

Blues Legend Stevie Ray Vaughn, who was killed in a helicopter in 1990, will be inducted by John Mayer.

Miley Cyrus will induct Joan Jett & the Blackhearts into the Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 18, at  Cleveland's Public Hall. The "I Love Rock and Roll" singer is expected to perform.