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Ringo and Friend
In every picture of Ringo from the 70s, he looks like he’s fighting not to cry.
Spread Peace
Full lyrics HERE.
The light that’s shining out from you will touch everything that you see…
When Ringo wants to say something, he doesn’t couch it in difficult metaphors. He keeps it simple. Full lyrics HERE.
Does it mean you don’t love me anymore?
“Don’t Pass Me By” first appeared on The Beatles (aka The White Album). On his latest album, Give More Love, Ringo Starr slowed it down and made it much, much better: Interestingly, the Georgia Satellites took the same song, sped it up, and made it much, much better: Full lyrics HERE.
Peace and Love
pic.twitter.com/tbqqrl7PL9 — #RingoStarr (@ringostarrmusic) June 21, 2016 Ringo Starr is on Twitter HERE.
“No need to fear it…”
What I love about Ringo is that he doesn’t hide what he wants to say beneath layers of cryptic metaphors. It’s a certain courage you don’t find often. Anyway, this is a song about death that always lifts my spirits. Full lyrics HERE.
If you are big enough to take it…
George made this demo before handing it over to his friend Ringo. Ringo took out the “Hare Krishna!,” but otherwise left it pretty much the same.
Simplicity
The Guest House by Rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each …
“A Tale of Two Concerts,” or “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Mona and I went to see Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band last night at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas. We bought the tickets the same day they went on sale, and were really looking forward to it. But it was weird. It was like watching two totally different concerts. Ringo was everything I wanted …