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Fiona. 25. Rubber Soul & Revolver devotee. Taylor Swift connoisseur. Beatles history fanatic.
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“Once we started [recording the album] we couldn't stop. And then I got John to write me something, and I got Paul, I got George. You know... dragged in all me friends, 'cuz I'm lucky-- I got alot of people who'll work for me. I'll work for them, but I always feel very lucky that people will come out for me."

— Ringo Starr, on his 1973 self-titled album, 1977

#awww 🥹🥹🥹🥹#bugs#lovely to use that tag for such a late quote#73#77#ref#ringo#jr#pr#gr
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Around his new home at Kenwood his behaviour at first was like that of a lottery winner. To go with the grand house he bought a black Rolls-Royce (although it was second hand), then a Ferrari as well as a Mini Cooper, with black windows and black wheels (prompting Paul to tease that he was ‘going to buy a bicycle with black windows’). But even after he passed his driving test in February 1965, John rarely drove any of his cars – or showed much interest in the Volkswagen Beetle he’d bought for Cynthia, or the Porsche that replaced it. With his terrible eyesight, he was hopeless when behind the wheel, and he mainly left the driving to a former Welsh guardsman, Les Anthony. The only cars he did enjoy driving, if only for a little while, were the model ones that he would race around a vastly extended track made up of three Scalextric sets laid out across two empty bedrooms in the attic.
Whenever John got a craze he would throw himself completely into it, before suddenly forgetting it and moving on. When Ringo came to live nearby, the drummer had a go-kart track built in his garden as well as a pool room in his house, so John would go there occasionally. As the drummer so eloquently told me: ‘Sometimes I go to John’s house to play with his toys, and sometimes he comes to my house to play with mine.’

Ray Connolly, Being John Lennon: A Restless Life

#just like me fr#(except I'm a decent driver)#john#ringo#jr#ref
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He made me feel so confident.

INT: I love the Tom Snyder interview from 1975 where John talks about how proud he was of Ringo's success.

MARK HUDSON: Yeah! Well, you know what's interesting? Ringo gave me a great compliment one time. I'm very energetic, multi-colored beard, which you can't see out there in radioland, it's pretty frightening, and when Ringo sings, I really get him energized because he's always insecure about his voice, and Ringo always says, "I wanna be James Brown. I walk up to the microphone, l'm Bing Crosby." So that Ringo thing that we love so much, he would rather be Little Richard or Stevie Wonder or James Brown. And I always sort of like make him feel like he can hit notes that he never could. And one time in the studio he said, "You know, you remind me of John," because whenever Ringo had to sing a song, he'd get insecure, and evidently, from what Ringo said, that John would come out and say, "Alright Ring! Here we go man!" and he would start this thing like a football player. "You can do it! Here we go! Hit that note! With a little help from my friends!" and he would hit the note and he says "John had this thing that made me feel so confident," and a huge compliment to me, saying that made him feel the same way. And it's only because I quote Lennon, "Nothing you can do that can't be done." And I think that was a way of life, and I think that was the way John felt that way about Ringo. And that's when we look at John's first solo album, its three guys playing on it: Klaus Voorman, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, and that goes to show you the faith that obviously John had in him, was you know, three guys is pretty naked, and this day and age usually we do things to cover up.

— Interview with Mark Hudson (who produced five studio albums for Ringo) from Beatlology Magazine (May/June 2003 Edition)

#this is soooo sweet (except that i think ringo isnt particularly good on POB lmao. though maybe i need to relisten)#anyways LOVE!#jr#john#ringo#ref#fave
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sometimes i really think about ringo and john and their relationship just. the whole thing. because so many fans were under the impression that they weren't as close as the other beatles which is SO WRONG because they felt comfortable around each other in a weird way they didnt even share w the other beatles (in my opinion), between john's affectionate little teases towards ringo, always being willing to include him or collaborate or even live with him, to ringo saying that when he feels upset or sad he still imagines john is there with him (he wrote a SONG about it) (even stating in an interview he "saw john twice" after his death) and i just think they each felt very comforted by one another yet i rarely see people analyzing it or discussing it; ​people always want to focus on the negatives when in reality i think they bonded over both of them being very emotional yet just having different ways of expressing it, ringo being more passive and john being more aggressive

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John sees Ringo most of all, as he lives just round the corner. He pops round to his place when he's bored, to mess around in Ringo's garden or play with Ringo's expensive toys. They never make dates or proper arrangements. Things are just done as the mood takes them. Everything's on a basis of if I see you, I see you.

Just adding to this post because of some interesting stuff from The Beatles, the authorized biography by Hunter Davies, that demonstrates John and Ringo's closeness circa 1967.

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Ringo understands it. I can discuss it with him. I have to see the others to see myself. I realize then there is someone else like me, so it's satisfying and reassuring. It's frightening really, when it gets too bad. I have to see them to establish contact with myself again and come down.
I did a trial run with Ringo the other day. We went to the pictures, the first time for years and years, since we lived in Liverpool. We went to see a Morecambe and Wise film in Esher. We chose a matinée, thinking it would be quiet, but we forgot the schools were off and it was packed. We didn't see the whole film. We had an ice cream, then left. Nobody bothered us. It was just a practice run. I might go more often now.
Ringo and I also went on a bus. We just decided to try it, to see if we could do it. I've never been on a London bus before. It was on the Embankment. We were on the bus 20 minutes. It was great. We got recognized, but it didn't matter too much. We were in the mood for it. We started filming all the people on the bus. The conductress told us dirty jokes. Most people didn't really believe it was us.

Excerpts From The Beatles by Hunter Davies (1968)

#<3#there's an ease between them#and there's an ease between all three of the others and ringo which i think is related to them not meeting as teens tbh#I also think John and Ringo's personalities were compatible in a lot of ways#the beginning of the second excerpt is basically referring to what appears to be depression-induced dissociation#and I think John and Ringo struggled similarly which brought them closer#and it was good for them they lived near each other#on the other hand it makes me so fucking sad to think that Ringo probably has very little memory of many of his last experiences with John#and if he does it probably… I wonder a lot if that hurts. the fact that they were both destroying themselves in 73/4 getting drunk#yeah#jr#ref
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