John Lennon In A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

John Lennon at manager Brian Epstein's west London home for a photocall for the launch of The Beatles' new album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 19 May 1967

Baby Paul and puppy Martha 🐶

What things do you like best about Ringo?

Anon!!!!

I cannot emphasise enough how much I love Ringo. I just adore him. First of all, I love how much the other three loved him. I love Paul going "Ringo was like a GI!" and even John being tongue-tied and dippy about him having a car and a beard and a proper career when they were just stupid little boys. I love his low, gorgeous voice and his lovely teeth and his incredible blue eyes and the way his expression can go from "Catholic stained glass window saint" to "your cousin's cheeky ex-boyfriend who will fuck you into oblivion behind the offy" in two seconds flat. I love how supremely self-confident and secure he always was about loving other people, his propensity for giving and receiving cuddles, his devotion to his friends. I love his redemption arc! He had a shit start in life, he identified that he was an alcoholic and he dealt with it. Happy 35 years Ringo! I love the way he refused to throw Paul under the bus and insisted he'd always love George no matter what legalese was chucked at him from that quarter, and the way he looked after John when nobody else did. I love him insisting flatly and with northern sincerity that he's seen John twice since he died. I just love him so much, the metronome, the heartbeat of it all, I AM THE FUCKING CLICK TRACK

McCartney / Lennon

eras that have irreparably damaged my psyche:

part 2

old man john

listening to octopus's garden after you've blorboified the beatles is such a different experience?? like, before, you're just like "what a cute song for kids" and then post-blorboification you're like

RINGOOO 🥺 HE JUST WANTS TO BE HAPPY AND SAFE 🥺🥺🥺 WITH HIS FRIENDS...NOBODY CAN FIND THEM... 🥺 WHERE THEY CAN DANCE AND BE FREE 😭😭😭

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Paul in 1983.

bonus:

“Paul said he’s going to do the Hall of Fame speech. I really think I’m doing it just to give Paul a night out. He likes to keep busy.”

— Ringo Starr, on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, April 15th, 2015

“I don’t know [why we’re reviving it now]. Paul must’ve had a slow day. He says, ‘You know that track we did? Do you want to work on that?’”

— Ringo Starr, on the ‘final’ Beatles track, Variety, July 7th, 2023