Post by pledm on Oct 16, 2008 15:24:03 GMT -5
Just a response to Ringos statement that he won`t sign or except anything from fans anymore because he`s to busy..
Dear Ringo,
First off: Can I call you Ringo? I've always considered you the down-to-earth Beatle, so writing this letter to Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey, Member of the Order of the British Empire, just seems too fussy. At least it did until yesterday, when I watched your new Web site video, in which you shared a "serious message to everybody watching" that you would no longer accept fan mail.
"Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it's going to be tossed," you said. "I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do."I can only imagine.
Heaven knows those $54.95 Ringo Starr hoodies you hawk on your Web site—or the $19.95 tote bags with the peace symbol—won't sell themselves. And it's surely up to you to promote your last book, "Postcards From the Boys," full of notes the other Beatles sent you through the years. (Obviously, fan mail to Beatle = waste of time. Beatle mail to Beatle = kaching!)
Your video reminded me of a Ringo before the fans' appreciation could be taken for granted. Bob Spitz's "The Beatles: The Biography" shares a heartwarming scene from the Liverpool days, in which you and your mother, Elsie, work hard to answer every fan letter. One can assume you believed that without the fans' support, the fame and fortune would all disappear.
And what if all the adulation did vanish?
For one, it would've made for a different day this past July when about 300 fans lined an entire block along East Wacker Place to help you celebrate your 68th birthday. Downtown traffic would've been better for Chicago. And you, you could've enjoyed a day without having to sign all those pesky autographs. You would've been "Free as a Bird," which as you know is also a Beatles song, featuring the lyric: "Where did we lose the touch that seemed to mean so much?"
Where did we?
Great response to Ringo,what an asshole.
source:http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-ft-ringo-letter-1016oct16,0,5780066.story
Dear Ringo,
First off: Can I call you Ringo? I've always considered you the down-to-earth Beatle, so writing this letter to Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey, Member of the Order of the British Empire, just seems too fussy. At least it did until yesterday, when I watched your new Web site video, in which you shared a "serious message to everybody watching" that you would no longer accept fan mail.
"Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it's going to be tossed," you said. "I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do."I can only imagine.
Heaven knows those $54.95 Ringo Starr hoodies you hawk on your Web site—or the $19.95 tote bags with the peace symbol—won't sell themselves. And it's surely up to you to promote your last book, "Postcards From the Boys," full of notes the other Beatles sent you through the years. (Obviously, fan mail to Beatle = waste of time. Beatle mail to Beatle = kaching!)
Your video reminded me of a Ringo before the fans' appreciation could be taken for granted. Bob Spitz's "The Beatles: The Biography" shares a heartwarming scene from the Liverpool days, in which you and your mother, Elsie, work hard to answer every fan letter. One can assume you believed that without the fans' support, the fame and fortune would all disappear.
And what if all the adulation did vanish?
For one, it would've made for a different day this past July when about 300 fans lined an entire block along East Wacker Place to help you celebrate your 68th birthday. Downtown traffic would've been better for Chicago. And you, you could've enjoyed a day without having to sign all those pesky autographs. You would've been "Free as a Bird," which as you know is also a Beatles song, featuring the lyric: "Where did we lose the touch that seemed to mean so much?"
Where did we?
Great response to Ringo,what an asshole.
source:http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-ft-ringo-letter-1016oct16,0,5780066.story