LONDON - Ringo Starr doesn't want to hear from you.
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If you do write, your letter will end up in the trash.
That's the message from Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr. After 45 years of stardom, he doesn't want to spend any more time answering mail or sending signed photos back to fans.
The fan fatigue led the former Beatles drummer to post a sometimes angry sounding short video clip on his Web site telling fans that any mail sent to him after Oct. 20 will not be read or answered. British television stations broadcast the video on Tuesday.
"It's going to be tossed," he says on the video. "I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace and love, peace and love."
The drummer and singer did not elaborate on the reason behind his decision to cut off a major point of contact with his many fans.
Starr, 68, has maintained a very active touring and recording schedule in recent years, drawing large crowds for performances with his All-Starr band.
The band plays a mix of old Beatles hits, Starr's many solo offerings, and other classics from the 1960s and 1970s. Starr usually serves as front man, though he sometimes plays the drums.
But he has angered longtime fans in Liverpool by telling interviewers that he does not miss his native city. Vandals there beheaded a topiary sculpture of Starr earlier this year — he was the only one of the four Beatles whose likeness was desecrated.
The good-natured drummer, who also enjoyed a brief acting career after star turns in Beatles' films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!," guest starred on a 1991 episode of "The Simpsons" in which he is shown scrupulously answering every piece of fan mail that comes his way.
"They took the time to write to me, and I don't care if it takes 20 years, I'm going to answer every one of them," Starr says on the show.
But now that's changed, because he has too much to do. Which, apparently, includes cleaning out his belly button lint, because he certainly hasn't done any worthwhile music during the entire lifetimes of most of the vynsane.com forumites.
Whatta dickweed. What the fuck does this dumbass have to do that's taking all his time other than sending letters to the US telling girls that they call fries "chips" in England? If it were McCartney, I might buy it. But Ringo's a fucknut. And now an asshole to boot.
Shouldn't he begging fans to send him mail? I realize that he played for the great Beatles and he was at one time the most popular of them (in the States at least) but they broke up DECADES ago. Take what you can get Ringo...which means apple in Japanese.
UGH. RINGO STARR IS A MEGOMANIACAL TYRANNICAL DESPOT IN THE FUTURE I HAIL FROM. HE IS KEPT ALIVE WITH A SERIES OF INSIDIOUS MECHANISMS (THINK MOJO BUT WITH A HUGE SHNOZZ AND LESS YELLOW.)
HE RULES WONDERFUL BRITAIN (HE HAD GREAT LEGALLY CHANGED TO WONDERFUL IN 2055) WITH AN IRON FIST. AND, NOT SURPRISINGLY, HE IS A DISCIPLE OF DOUCHE.
NO HANDLEBARS HAN SHOT. FIRST! PERIOD. NO HANDLEBARS MORE COWBELL! NO HANDLEBARS GO FUCK YOURSELF™
As to Ringo being the most popular - wha??? Apart from Marge Simpson and my own mother, both of whom had crushes on him back in the day, he had no fans. Even today, he's considered the least popular/important Beatle, so I don't know where you heard that.
For what it's worth, I always liked Ringo. Partially because he narrated "Thomas the Tank Engine", which was like crack for me as a toddler. For whatever reason, he also scored the hottest wife out of all the Beatles (the Bond girl from "The Spy Who Loved Me"). But I can't really name too many Beatles songs Ringo sang besides "Yellow Submarine" and "Octopus's Garden".
He also sang "Don't Pass Me By" and "With a Little Help from My Friends" with the Beatles. (Curiously, both were improved upon in covers by the Georgia Satellites and Joe Cocker, respectively.) His solo career has been more miss than hit, but has given us "It Don't Come Easy," "No No Song," and a barely passable cover of "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)," as well as a lot of crap.
He also did a fucking awesome version of Mr Conductor on SNL, which, unfortunately, I don't see on YouTube. It's a retelling of "The Little Engine That Could," which ends with the Little Engine having a heart attack, rolling down the mountain backwards, and smashing into a school bus full of kids.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
I fucking hate the Beatles. Paul tossbag McCartney most of all. I realise it's been a cash cow for the tourism industry of liverpool UK for many decades but when i think how many other great bands and artistes have come from that city and don't get any accolades or kudos it makes me spit. and i NEVER spit because it's rude and uncouth.
they have a fucking Beatles museum, Magical mystery tour bus, a shopping mall named after the Cavern club, god knows how many streets named after song lyrics or beatles related shite, it's just gone on too long and frankly i'll glad when Mccartney and Starr shufle off this mortal coil and stop existing.
I don't even like their music. And I also fucking hate Oasis the Beatles tribute band. they can die too.
I have never read any of your posts, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of posts you deliver, they are just the kind of posts such people like. Whatevah! Osculum mihi asinum!
anarky wrote:He also did a fucking awesome version of Mr Conductor on SNL, which, unfortunately, I don't see on YouTube. It's a retelling of "The Little Engine That Could," which ends with the Little Engine having a heart attack, rolling down the mountain backwards, and smashing into a school bus full of kids.
That sounds awesomely hilarious! From which era of SNL was this? The mid-80s with Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz?
Jargo wrote:I realise it's been a cash cow for the tourism industry of liverpool UK for many decades but when i think how many other great bands and artistes have come from that city and don't get any accolades or kudos it makes me spit.
There was that one band of scary-looking guys who recorded a song called "Paranoid" or something like that.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
This is one of the many things I have read on Ringo being the most popular Beatle in America. This particular article talks about the Paul is Dead hoax being planned...
"Having sold the group on the idea, the Beatles had to decide which one of them was to "die." Brian wanted the victim to be Ringo because he was the most popular Beatle in the all-important U.S. market, but the drummer wanted nothing to do with it. Tony Barrow recalls, "Ringo flat out refused to be the one. He said, 'Being painted red in a movie is one thing, but pretending to be dead's another. I'm superstitious. Those clues might make it happen.' Brian was disappointed because he knew Ringo was the most sympathetic Beatle. You know Ringo got more mail from America than the other members of the group combined."
