August 26th, 2009 by Hannah
The Beatles are arguably the greatest band to ever grace the world but the secret behind their split has never been completely understood and the fact that the musicians kept mum about the circumstances didn’t exactly help the curiosity. However, a previously unreleased Rolling Stone interview tape with John Lennon has recently surfaced and it reveals the great amounts of tension between him and Paul McCartney. In the interview, John comments on feeling sick over selling out as well as being fed up playing sidekick to Paul, a feeling mutual for Ringo Starr and George Harrison. John also had a problem with how the rest of the band treated his wife, Yoko Ono.
June 29th, 2009 by Hannah
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce recently announced the 2010 honorees. The film honorees are Russell Crowe, Adam Sandler, James Cameron, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Emma Thompson and Mark Wahlberg and producer Gale Anne Hurd. The TV honorees are Bill Maher, Chris Berman, Jon Cryer, Peter Graves, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sam Waterston. The recording industry honorees are Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, the Funk Brothers, Alan Jackson, Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Marco Antonio Solis, ZZ Top and the late Roy Orbison. And the live performance honorees are Andrea Bocelli, Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Liberte. Congratulations!
March 13th, 2009 by Hannah
It’s not the 1st time that such a thing has happened and although we all hope it never happens again or to anyone of us we know blunders such as the one with the Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney show could be repeated.
Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney are to perform in New York and fans naturally would not let go such an opportunity go by but organizers felt fans heartbroken after hundreds of them could not book tickets online as they were blocked. Fans were left fuming when Ticketmaster declining ticket requests merely 9 seconds into online bookings and ticket rates were quoted for up to $9,000.
This really unacceptable and I think there are vested interested either the site is doing this on purpose or someone’s paying them to do so. Most often it is the ticket site that manipulates these things and creates a hysteria kind of environment where fans are willing to do anything to get their hands on the tickets while sites make huge profits by selling cheap tickets at exorbitant rates.
January 13th, 2009 by Hannah
The former Beatles drummer has ceased all activity on his site ever since he declared that he would refuse to sign any more autographs or material of any kind. A source close to him had this to say: “Ringo used to enjoy telling fans about his plans, but he was pretty shocked by the hostility he faced over the autograph thing. As a result he’s reluctant to appear on the website again.” There were rumors that the autographed objects were being sold on eBay so I guess this just goes to show what kind of fans Ringo has… or had. Oh well, perhaps now is the time for peace and solace at last… or maybe not.
November 12th, 2008 by Hannah
Ringo Starr seems to have developed somewhat of an animosity towards his fans. After being surprised by a fan when receiving and award he handled the situation by screaming “Get the fuck off” at her. Also, only last month Ringo posted a video message on his website in which he refuses to sign autographs anymore or read fan mail. In the video he mentioned: “I’m warning you with peace and love. I have too much to do.” He must have reached the braking point… poor guy, so many years under the spotlight must have made some permanent damage to his personality. Peace and love seems to be a very powerful weapon for Ringo.
October 22nd, 2008 by Hannah
Former Beatle Ringo Starr has proclaimed just how big of a douche he is in a video on his personal website. He said “Please do not send fan mail to any address you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it’s gonna be tossed. I’m warning you with peace and love I have too much to do… No more fan mail and no objects to be signed. Nothing.” Was that public announcement really necessary? Maybe he’s just trying to drive up the value of Ringo signed stuff out in the marketplace. I wonder what he’s busy with. He’s 68 years old. Unless he has a new album like Paul McCartney, I doubt he’s up to much.
April 2nd, 2008 by Hannah
The last unfinished John Lennon track could see the light of day as a tribute to “fifth Beatle” Neil Aspinall who died last week.
Now And Then was unearthed with Real Love and Free As A Bird during the Fab Four’s Anthology series in the 1990s. While the other two tracks were spruced up by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr and went on to become top ten hits, Now And Then was left untouched.
Neil worked as chief of Apple Corps until last year and ensured The Beatles profited from their back catalogue. An insider said: “There have been discussions about finishing Now And Then. It would be quite a task. The process of re-recording the two tracks that charted was fairly painless because the songs were almost complete. Now And Then will need a significant amount more work to get it into a condition where it could be released.”
With George also dead, I reckon Paul and Ringo should work together one last time in tribute to departed members of the group’s inner circle.
January 26th, 2008 by Hannah
67-year old rocker and former Beatle Ringo Starr may have been a big snob to his fans on Monday night but not all legendary musicians grow up to be snobs. Take Stevie Wonder for example. The blind singer went to Mr. Chow on Monday night and stopped to sign autographs for his fans – with a little help from a sighted friend of course. The legendary music man just wanted to make sure that the ‘S’ on his name was curled at the top. That’s much better than any sighted Ringo that’s for sure. If a blind man can sign an autograph, so can you!
January 26th, 2008 by Hannah
One of the two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr, was spotted on Monday night and it seems that he was in a less than friendly mood. He refused to stop to pose for photos or sign a single autograph in New York. Autograph seekers tried everything to get a rise out of the former mop top by shouting “Sign for the dead people, sign for Martin Luther King” but to no avail. The Beatle stonewalled them all by shouting and pushing his way through and out of the crowd. Just because you were once part of the band who thought they were more famous than Jesus doesn’t mean you can be a snob!
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