Ringo Starr’s Biggest Regret About The Beatles

Everyone has regrets. Until Ringo Starrdrummer of what is considered the greatest band in history, the Beatles.

Starr was the final element of the group, completed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Came in at the last minute, replacing Pete Bestand he never left. He remained until the end of the band’s activities in 1970 and since then, he has pursued a solo career, in addition to creating the supergroup Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band in the late 1980s.

We know that after its end was decreed, the Beatles They never performed together again. However, if it were up to the Starra reunion with his bandmates was supposed to take place before the tragic death of Lennon in 1980.

In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone USAthe drummer revealed that the simple fact that the group did not get together again, even for a quick performance, was his biggest regret regarding the band. The musician stated:

We still had a few songs left and could have performed live. We could have gotten together and played ‘A Day in the Life’ (song released after the Beatles stopped performing).”

Ringo He also revealed that he believed that a reunion never occurred due to creative and personal differences between the members. For him, this would have been alleviated with current technology, as communication would be easier.

With the technology we currently have, we could have come together. I think the stumbling block was just sitting down together and saying, ‘OK, let’s do this.’ We never got to this point. We did (it) in pairs.”

Beatles in duos — or trios

In fact, it is worth remembering that there were several occasions on which two and even three members of the Beatles worked together after the band’s end. However, a reunion between the four never occurred.

Despite this, his third solo album Ringo Starr, Ringo (1973), had contributions from all former members of the legendary group. It is worth mentioning, however, that they were works carried out separately, without any track developed together by the Fab Four.

Meeting proposal with bizarre opening

Six years later, now in an interview with New Yorker, Ringo Starr brought up this subject again. He revealed that in 1973, thanks to a brief meeting with John Lennonnew rumors of a group reunion began to emerge.

According to the drummer, shortly after, he and his former colleagues turned down a fortune for a reunion. Those responsible for the idea still wanted a bizarre opening, in which a man would fight a shark — interestingly, two years before the classic film Shark (1975) was released.

Collaborated: Augusto Ikeda.