[nevereverywhere]

✨Ringo✨

[thedissenters]

John Lennon & Paul McCartney during the recording of a special Around The Beatles episode of Ready Steady Go at Wembley Studios in London, England | 28 April 1964

[wonderwalltobehere]

According to Shotton, Harrison grew furious, and began railing at the officers. Paraphrasing Jesus in Matthew 8:20, he told them: 'The foxes have got their lairs, and the birds have their fucking nests - but man doesn't have anywhere he can fucking go without people breaking into his house!' He was arrested by Pilcher and the charges were read out. Two pieces of evidence were produced. 'That one's mine,' he said, 'but I've never seen this one before in me fucking life! You don't have to bring your own dope to me house, I've got plenty meself! And you didn't have to turn this whole fucking place upside down - I could've shown you where the stuff was if you'd asked me!'

'I'm a tidy bloke,' he later told The Sunday Times. 'I keep records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, pot in the pot box. This was the biggest stick of hashish I'd ever seen and something I'd obviously know about if I had seen it before.'

on the 1969 kinfauns drugs bust in riding so high: the beatles and drugs, joe goodden, 2017

[lindamccartneyblog]

Pattie Boyd photographed by Linda McCartney, 1969.

[toadstoolillustrations]

Paul: There's a line in the song [Band on the Run], "If we ever get out of here". That's a very George Harrison phrase. I can hear him saying that line in a business meeting that no one wants to be in. He had that great, droll manner, making those amusing asides - "If we ever get out of here" and "Do we have to do this?". He was a real leveller in the group, a great person to have around. He was not a sufferer of fools.

Paul McCartney, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

[harrisonarchive]

George Harrison photographed by Jürgen Vollmer at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg, April 1961 (scanned from The Beatles in Hamburg); and Monika Pricken in Hamburg, 1962 (scanned from Mach Schau!).

Monika Paulsen (née Pricken) was one of the first Hamburg-based Beatles fans, right from when the band performed at the Indra and the Kaiserkeller in 1960. She was interviewed for a German book about the Hamburg days; a translated except follows: “Because I spoke English quite well... a friend wanted me to ask The Beatles a question. I stuck with Stuart Sutcliffe and because we were always there [at the Indra], we got acquainted. The first contact had been made, after all. But when The Beatles moved to Kaiserkeller, Stuart was almost exclusively with Astrid. That’s how I got to know George better. I was 17 and he was 17. George was unbelievably funny and open, and we had a lot of fun. Mind you, it was completely platonic. […] I invited them all to my house. That was about three or four weeks after I had met them at the Indra — so probably about September 1960.  They wore jackets and black pants, sort of like waiters’ pants. And they were very friendly and extremely well-mannered. […] My mother and grandmother cooked a meal. […] Before they headed back to the club, each of them politely said thank you with a handshake and a bow. That was quite cute… My parents met The Beatles as nice and unspoiled youngsters.” - Mach Schau! Die Beatles in Hamburg (1992)

[hqbeatles]

[thedissenters]

Ringo Starr at rehearsals for a special Around The Beatles episode of Ready Steady Go at Wembley Studios in London, England | 28 April 1964 © Terry O'Neill

[eppysboys]

eppy what's this about Little Richard propositioning Ringo? i'm intrigued

Hi anon,

"[Little] Richard kept turning around to smile at Ringo. It was an “I fancy you” smile, says Mike [McCartney]. It came as a tremendous shock to the Liverpool musicians (and a crushing disappointment for some) that their rock idol was not-as-most-men. So much was he queening around backstage, making lewd, lascivious remarks about boys and scribbling in his giant bible (which he let no one see), he was obviously one of them." The Beatles All These Years Tune In Vol. 1 by Mark Lewisohn

"We got to Hamburg and met the likes of Little Richard, Gene Vincent. I remember Little Richard inviting us back to his hotel. He was looking at Ringo’s ring and said, “I love that ring.” He said, “I’ve got a ring like that. I could give you a ring like that.” So we all went back to the hotel with him. We never got a ring." Paul McCartney – from his speech for the John Lennon’s induction at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, January 19, 1994

I don't have the specific quote, but there's a few threads online about claims Horst Fascher made in his book that explicitly say that Little Richard did proposition Ringo, who rebuffed him, and Horst was the one to duck in and save Ringo when he heard the commotion. The degree of seriousness/how aggressive he was is described dramatically different from person to person who has read the book, so it's either being sensationalised or downgraded and I can't tell you the truth. Given he way he talked about certain encounters from around that time (Coming from his own authorised biography), it's very likely that Little Richard came on very strong when approaching someone he fancied. That doesn't necessarily equal assault, and it wouldn't be fair to claim it without any evidence.

"[Ringo]'s a wonderful person..." Little Richard, 1964

"I developed an especially close relationship with Paul, but me and John couldn’t make it. John had a nasty personality. He was different from Paul and George; they were sweet. George and Paul had humble-type personalities. You know, submissive. John and Ringo had strange personalities, both of them." Little Richard, Rolling Stone 1984 (his, uh, 'Sin to Salvation' era 😐)

[oooh-darling]

“I could even hear what they were saying off-mike; ‘Oh Paul, you’re so cute tonight.’ was met with the reply ‘Sod off, Lennon.’”

—

Joan Baez on accompanying the Beatles to their concert in Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver. 

26 August 1964

[oopshidaisyy]

yes yes they’re gay but just as importantly. paul slipped on a jellybean and landed square on his bottom

(from mojo magazine: the red issue 1962-1966, page 69 (yes genuinely that’s the page number))

[planetwaving]

'like people quote scripture' and so on

[motherlennon]

when ur big stupid baby of a friend hands u dirty candy from the floor, U EAT IT AND SAY THANK U

john looks so proud of himself 😂

[muzaktomyears]

there is such unnecessary wanking detail in Pete Shotton's book. I know John would approve 💕

[muzaktomyears]

including:

the day John discovered wanking, aged 11, then demonstrated it to Pete

how they used to toss off in the bushes on the way home from school, eventually creating a whole gang of schoolboys who wanked in the bushes and compared "shapes and sizes"

discovering a field where they could see into a garden owned by a woman who used to sunbathe topless, then lying in the grass and wanking to the sight while egging each other on

discussion of John's ability to come three or four times in a row, leading to Pete's challenge that he "achieve ten consecutive orgasms" (John managed nine)

John's "first screw", which he was disappointed with: "'it was like trying to get into a mouse's earhole,' he reported. 'Actually, I think I'd rather have a wank.'"

[got-ticket-to-ride]

August 26, 1964

I wanted to know what Paul McCartney looked like the day John told him "Oh Paul, you're so cute, tonight" according to Joan Baez's account:

“I could even hear what they were saying off-mic: ‘Oh Paul, you’re so cute tonight’ was met with the reply, ‘Sod off, Lennon.’”

[got-ticket-to-ride]

Arriving at the scene for their interview "RoundUp" April 30, 1964 // John looking glum when Paul asked Morag Hood out to come to their show.

[thedissenters]

John Lennon on a train from Washington, D.C. back to New York City, NY | 12 February 1964

[javelinbk]

Anthology George, you will always be famous