You have to go with it… That’s always been a musician’s attitude, to move with the times.”Īsked if he thought the Beatles should’ve stayed together a few more years, he said: we all come on, and half the audience That’s the atmosphere for them now. There were “very few cameras in the audience… Nobody filmed us. So I’m grateful to Peter for doing such a great job.”īack in the ‘60s, almost no one filmed the Beatles at shows, he said. “I spoke to Peter, I said, ‘I was there- it was lots of fun, as well.’ He certainly brought that out.
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And I kept saying: ‘We were laughing we were having fun as well, and we played great, and we did all this in a month.’ And Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s, I thought, was just too down,” he said. The Beatle “never liked” the original 1970 documentary of the album by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, he said. John and Paul would always have a couple songs so we could start the ball rolling, and there we didn’t.” The difference with ‘Get Back,’ we had no songs to start. “We made other records and it went through the same cycle. “I remembered quite a lot of it,” Starr said of the docuseries footage at the press conference. Many fans, though, were enthusiastic about Disney+’s 2021 Beatles docs-series “Get Back,” directed by Peter Jackson. (His fans’ reactions to that tweet weren’t quite as enthusiastic.) He recently unveiled “ Ringo Starr NFT Collection - The Creative Mind Of A Beatle” - his website tells us he’s the “First Beatle to Launch into the NFT Universe.” In a video posted to Twitter, Starr explained has a Metaverse gallery of his NFT art. Founded in 1998 by Starr and his wife Barbara Starkey, the Lotus Foundation aims to help a multitude of causes, including Substance abuse, Cerebral palsy, homelessness and animals in need, according to his web site. Proceeds from Ringo Starr Art go to the Lotus Foundation. Starr also makes “spin art,” and graphic designs. What saved him during lockdown was “painting, making EPs, and going to the gym.”
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For me, that’s what it’s all about - playing and having an audience.” I put the All-Starrs together 32 years ago - and I was in a couple of bands before that. Not playing during lock-down was “really difficult.