Word: ringo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musically, the song is a mixture of the burbling sighs and grunts of "Hello-Goodbye" (one magnificent nasal intake of breath after the line 'Remember to let her other lines from pervious verses) and the wavering, broad-based melody punctuated by Ringo's superb stabbing drums of 'All You Need Is Love...
What Davies finally suggests is the Beatles' isolation and boredom. Ringo is the most content, living a suburban, intensely domestic life in a house full of gadgets, including six TV sets. Paul roams restlessly through the youthful London underground, where artists and the remaining hippies overlap. George Harrison searched desperately for his own thing, seems to have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will...
...royalties, he offers the largest selection of spicy morsels yet compiled on the Beatles. For example, here is Paul McCartney on sex: "I got it for the first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo Starr on the Beatles' tours: "The only fun part was the hotels in the evening, smoking pot and that." Or John Lennon on the art of writing lyrics: "We know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. Let's stick that in there...
Davies reveals that John has had bouts of shoplifting, that in school Paul "always got good marks for all his essays," and that John, George and Paul have sometimes been vegetarians. It is further disclosed that Ringo's wife Maureen collects trading stamps...
...that wasn't far off the mark as the Beatles' Apple Boutique, London's psychedelic Woolworth's, staged a two-day going-out-of-business giveaway. Why, after eight months, was Apple closing? "We got fed up with the rag trade," explained Paul McCartney. Groused Ringo Starr: "I never could find anything to fit me there anyway." In fact, despite the Beatle name and a hefty investment, Apple was barely breaking even...