#guitarstarr

[candicoated]

Ringo ships be so good, the fandom missing out fr. 🤭

Like its just pure bliss and vibes and we dont discuss that enough. Our boy gets along with everyone, he's so shippable.

[ilovedig]

Hi there, you said a while ago you were open to questions about your fan fic writing.

I saw you mention a couple of times that you like unusual or 'rare' pairings within the Beatles space, both as a reader and as a writer. Would you like to elaborate on why that is? And: do you have (a) favorite(s)?

Hi! Thanks for the question!

I'm sitting here writing and deleting figuring out the best way to word this.

In everything I do I take "the path least traveled" as it were. I like going down research rabbit holes that most people haven't. I think that might be part of it.

I also think that too much stock is put into John and Paul, and it reduces them to two-dimensional in a lot of ways. There was so much more to both of them than their feelings for each other, and I love finding that.

I never understand how people can look at Ringo and just decide he has "straight vibes"

Or hear that Jurgen had a crush on George and not think that maybe it was requited.

Read that Ian James and Paul bought matching silverflecked jackets and danced around listening to elvis and not wonder if it was slow dancing

Learn about how Ringo and Johnny Guitar shared a tiny chalet in the Butlins and not go in search for more info.

I want to know everything there is to know and I feel like "rare pairs" get me all the closer. And it makes me sad that they're rare cause they were possible relationships too. I know rare means not talked about as much but it so often feels like it means less likely to exist, which again is so strange to say about people we don't and never will know.

As for my favorites....

Icke Braun and Paul is a big one. Icke is just so anxious and there are many times that I wonder if he wasn't, if he had had the courage to see Paul in the 80s, if they would have rekindled something.

Denny Laine, Linda and Paul is one of my favorites as well. Just the loving throuple of it all.

George and Dylan aren't really a rare pair but they aren't talked about nearly enough for how almost confirmed they are.

Paul and George is probably my favorite pairing of the four boys, though Paul and Ringo is a close second.

Johnny Guitar and Ringo are also a big one.

And I forgot the girls. I'd love fics about Dot and Cyn, there's quite a lot to suggest something happened while the boys were in Hamburg.

Or, now that I've seen May Pang's movie, her and Cyn would be great too.

Certain photos of George and Paul and Jane together make me think about them quite a lot.

Oh George and Eric Idle needs more love.

I could go on and on, I think the less people write about it, the more I want to know, the more I want to read.

I'm sure I'm not alone in that, but I don't know too many people who feel the same way, though, I've found some, you included.

Thanks again for the question!

[tillthereweretangents]

Ringo Starr and Johnny Guitar (part 1 of n)

Butlins

As part of our quest to watch all the Beatles related media (with a special emphasis on underappreciated people in their story) we watched this video:

RORY STORM AND THE HURRICANES a documentary

(It seems to be incomplete, but it’s a documentary about Rory Storm and the Hurricanes). We have talked about the possibility that Ringo had some kind of relationship with Johnny Guitar for a long time, but this doc (combined with things we’ve recently read in Ringo’s book Photograph) tipped us over into “they may actually have been boyfriends”.

For those who don’t know him, Johnny Guitar (Johnny Bryne – he got his nickname from the 1954 movie) was the guitarist with Rory Storm, and shared a chalet at the Butlins Family Resort with Ringo up until Rich was poached by the Beatles.

Here’s the page from Ringo’s book Photograph where he talks about that:

In bed at Butlins. Johnny Guitar and I shared a chalet, ten foot long by eight foot wide. Ah, the chalets of early Butlins…

Some people, like Julian Lennon, use ellipses (...) in place of periods all the time. Ringo does not. So to use the ellipsis here means something. Likely, he wants us to think this is suggestive. Which, frankly, even if there was a period, it still would be. 

Also if you think this photo looks familiar, you’d be right, it goes around Tumblr a lot, but, typically, it doesn’t look like that. 

This is the version you probably recognize. We will admit, when it’s cropped and rotated it does look more intimate, but it still looks intimate when it’s not as well, at least, we think so. 

Elsewhere in Ringo’s book he says “Johnny Guitar was like the first Jimi Hendrix in my life; I thought he was incredible.” It could be that Ringo is just talking about Johnny’s guitar playing here, but it’s pretty strong.

[candicoated]

We must come to the realization that Ringo fans prefer Starrison and George fans prefer Dylarrison.

Can't fault Ringo fans, we don't get anything outside of like Starrison though. (Because no one cares about Ringo ships tbh... As much I wish they did we have to come to that conclusion and that's fine)

Conversely, I've seen both John and Paul fans embrace McLennon.