Ringo Starr should be ashamed
Just seen this arrogant ***** on Johnaton Ross with not a good word to say about this city, if this is the case why did the knob come to the opening, i'll tell you why cause he was the least liked beatle and no one realy cares less about him, and to boot his performance was ****e and his new songs. He should not be welcomed to take any further part in this celebration with his fake yankee accent.
Rather harsh.
He admits he's been away from Liverpool for 40 years, and doesn't recognise most places, which is a fair comment.
I've lived in Liverpool for 40 years, but wasn't born here and have a 'fake' Scouse accent, like Ringo has a 'fake' American accent.
They're a combination of where you spent your early years and then where you spent your later years.
well he didn't do to well at promoting the city did he, when i saw paul mccartney on jules holland on new years eve he seemed like someone who was still in love with the city, totally diferent to how ringo came across and come on you can't deny that he comes across as smug and arrogant
Sorry - saw it as well and lost a lot of respect for the guy.
i lost all my respect for him the loser
"Smug and arrogant" (in a lovable Scouse way) was what the Beatles were all about, and, apart from the music, made them stand out from the other groups.
yeah i would agree but the way he came across tonight was different, you would never here mccartney say what he said like that
I had no intention of watching this - and didn't - but I was going to post earlier this evening about how bad he is as an "ambassador" and even point out this programme and how I reckoned he would very likely only be talking about his new single and himself generally (was I right ?) and not very entertainingly either. The American drawl in his voice is really, really aggravating too. Could barely watch him on BBC2's Culture Show interview last week.
I wonder if there's a bit of a movement occurring here with a once-sacrosanct Liverpudlian showing his true colours and everyone back in the 'pool with truer colours now wanting his like out of the way. The Beatles are awesome but they're also something of a cultural roadblock. Am I wrong ? Is it time for the luckiest drummer in history to sod off back to the place he now chooses to call home and leave us alone ?
AP.
Never liked him
When he said " John had an airport named after him, I will have to wait till I die "
Pity he never mentioned his supposed good friend George, who still has nothing named after him. ( I still live in hope that George may get a bus stop with his name one day, but dont hold your breath )
Ringo is a let down
Get Gerry Marsden on
Last edited by Gnomie; 01-19-2008 at 01:58 AM.
I could never understand why they dragged him out of retirement to come back to Liverpool in the first place. Hes not been back here for 20 years not like hes short of a few bob to fly over is it.
What does annoy me with Ringo and Paul is why do they still do that V peace sign when they are getting their photos taken???
Its like Pavloves dogs when they hear a bell they know its food when either of these 2 see a camera its the V sign.
Im sure there were more suitable people who they could have had to open the 08 celebrations other than Ringo?
I know hes not to everyone taste but what about Ken Dodd at least hes never left Liverpool and his accent is definatly scouse.
Lainey
smug?
Originally Posted by PhilipG
the beatles way back when were very off the cuff and had that whole witty sarcasm thing going (that us scousers do so well!) they were young, talented,in demand & enjoying the ride but they weren't smug or arrogant not then anyway though that may have come later for some of them...
Wasn't "We're more popular than Christ",
(to quote myself): " "smug and arrogant" (in a lovable Scouse way)"?
Last edited by PhilipG; 05-02-2008 at 02:02 PM.
It would have been if it wasn't true - or that Maureen Cleeve hadn't misinterpreted how Lennon meant it.
Regarding another comment above. I'd say they never said look at me i'm a cheeky chappie from Liverpool, they were just from Liverpool which made them intrinsically what they were regarding their humour and cockiness. They never used the city to make a play on it.
Agree totally mate. They were what they were because they were from the city and that was it, end of. I have never heard any of them from interviews at the time playing up the 'scouse wit' thing. They were just 4 cocky lads.
And as you said, the fact is they were more popular than Jesus at the time so Lennon was just saying what he observed, not what he believed.
Yeah, that quote was 6 months old and caused not a ripple when published here - fast forward 6 months to the bible belt southern states of America and beatles bonfires, death threats and dj's pronouncing Lennon as the devil. It could only happen out there of course. Christianity was falling, the promiscuous society was raging, pot smoking hippies and the LSD summer of love around the corner, church congregations falling and the Beatles achieving number one after number one whilst getting m.b.e's and sell out tours. It's true that he was commenting on his observations. If they really wanted to speak out about what they thought politically - but were banned by Epstein - Apartheid and vietnam - then fireworks would have gone off - they might've acted the goat as moptops but they had brains too.
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