Ringo Starr should be ashamed

Paul McCartney wrote When i'm 64 in the 1950s and sang it on the Sgt Pepper album in 1967. They split on 10th April 1970.

Some more When i'm 64 info - the Beatles wrote a handful of songs in the late 1950s including one after 909 which appears over a decade later on Let it be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I'm_Sixty-Four


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Originally Posted by Ged

Ringo was an alcoholic in the late 1970s and went into rehab with his bond girl wife, Barbara Bach, he has been teetotal now for many years.

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Paul McCartney told my nephew a few years ago that Ringo was on a bottle of vodka a day.

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Originally Posted by Waterways

Paul McCartney told my nephew a few years ago that Ringo was on a bottle of vodka a day.

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nice to hear he's cutting down now

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Originally Posted by Waterways

Ringo did sing "When I'm 64". Very few were written in the 1950s, if any. Most were written in the 1960s. As the Beatles split in 1969 they had to be.

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Corr-WRONG!

The song was recorded on 6 December 1966, during one of the first sessions for the as-yet-unnamed next album that became Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. There were multiple overdub sessions, including the lead vocal by McCartney on 8 December and backing vocals by McCartney, Lennon, and George Harrison on 20 December. The clarinets were recorded on 21 December.[8]

The song is in the key of C sharp major. The Beatles recorded the song in C major but the master take was sped up in order to raise the key by one semitone at the insistence of McCartney. Martin remembers that McCartney suggested this change in order to make his voice sound younger.[9] McCartney says, "I wanted to appear younger, but that was just to make it more rooty-tooty; just lift the key because it was starting to sound turgid."[1]

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Originally Posted by Ged

Paul McCartney wrote When i'm 64 in the 1950s and sang it on the Sgt Pepper album in 1967. They split on 10th April 1970.

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Ged, you are right. I had brain seizure. Ringo sang "with a little help from my friends", on the same album. A cover by Joe Cocker was a big hit.

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Originally Posted by Ged

Paul McCartney wrote When i'm 64 in the 1950s and sang it on the Sgt Pepper album in 1967. They split on 10th April 1970.

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They last recorded together in 1969. The Abbey Rd album. The earlier recorded, Let It Be came out after, because of problems. I have a place about 500 yards from the studio. I nearly kill a few Japanese tourists every morning who are walking over the crossing taking piccies.

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Originally Posted by Waterways

They last recorded together in 1969. The Abbey Rd album. The earlier recorded, Let It Be came out after, because of problems. I have a place about 500 yards from the studio. I nearly kill a few Japanese tourists every morning who are walking over the crossing taking piccies.

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Do you know what they sing in the background of 'Girl' Waterways? :)

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Originally Posted by H_Asbo

Do you know what they sing in the background of 'Girl' Waterways? :)

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I was told something like this once and forgot.

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Originally Posted by Waterways

I was told something like this once and forgot.

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Its to do with a girls 'equipment' and sounds like hit hit hit hit hit :)

I don't know Ringo so can only go on recent books and articles i've read. It would appear a turning point was getting off alcohol and an 'All Starr' band together some time back.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...pagewanted=all


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Originally Posted by Waterways

They last recorded together in 1969. The Abbey Rd album. The earlier recorded, Let It Be came out after, because of problems. I have a place about 500 yards from the studio. I nearly kill a few Japanese tourists every morning who are walking over the crossing taking piccies.

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Yes, but they were last in the studio together (minus John, who had given up on any of George's tracks) in early 1970 working on overdubs to 'I me mine'.

However, it is correct to say they didn't write any new 'Beatles' material after summer 1969 but it is incorrect to say they didn't write any songs in the late 1950s too. Anthology 1 even includes 'In spite of all the danger', an original recorded in Kensington, Liverpool (together with Buddy Holly's That'll be the day)

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Originally Posted by Ged

Yes, but they were last in the studio together (minus John, who had given up on any of George's tracks) in early 1970 working on overdubs to 'I me mine'.

However, it is correct to say they didn't write any new 'Beatles' material after summer 1969 but it is incorrect to say they didn't write any songs in the late 1950s too. Anthology 1 even includes 'Leave my kitten alone', an original recorded in Kensington, Liverpool (together with Buddy Holly's That'll be the day)

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Ged, I did say "Very few were written in the 1950s". It is also correct to say their last recording together as the Beatles was in 1969.

Imho 1967 was their best year though Revolver (66), the White Album (68) and Abbey Road (69) seem to always jockey for position too in any best 20 albums of anyone of all time together with Pepper. A great accolade for any group. I just don't know how Nirvana and the Stereophonics are regularly featured in those surveys though but that's the beauty of music being one mans food is another mans poison.

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Originally Posted by geoffrey

Within hours the city's local newspaper, The Liverpool Echo, was inundated with calls from angry readers and more than 1,500 people had posted on the paper's website forums, venting their anger.

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Is there a whole part of that website forum I don't know about? I can't see anything like that number!

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That's what I thought too. No way is there that amount of posts on that web-site, I look in there from time to time, and I looked in to see what the Echo forum had to say about Ringo - I was surprised at the time to find not that many posts - I thought there would have been a lot more. Some have been added since then - but not that amount.