Ringo Starr has been added to the lineup of next month’s concert benefiting The David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education And World Peace, which already had Paul McCartney and Eddie Vedder (and, sigh, Sheryl Crow) on its bill. The meteorologist-slash-director has a goal of teaching one million children to meditate; “In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss-the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us,” he says in a statement on the foundation’s Web site. (Which has me thinking about the boredom/bliss divide that the late David Foster Wallace wanted to probe with his final work of fiction, not to mention how excited I am to be staying in a hotel that doesn’t have TVs in its rooms next week.)
Back in my school days, Valentine’s Day was a time for exchanging cheap perforated Valentines cards and inedible Necco hearts, and punishing the unpopular kids by “forgetting” to give them anything. (I was perhaps one of those unpopular kids.) If you were really lucky you got a mixtape from a girl, and I did get a few in my day, even if they were from girl-space-friends and not girlfriends. What was disturbing was the presence of “Every Breath You Take” on said mixtapes, given it’s the kind of love song that John Wayne Gacy might write. Even Sting himself says it’s a paean to controlling someone:
Attention Beatles fans: Ringo Starr does not want your mail anymore, at least if it’s postmarked anytime after next Monday (Oct. 20). In a video message that he posted to his Web site–which was strangely hostile, yet festooned with “peace and love, peace and love”s–he stated that he would not be opening any fan letters received at any of his addresses if it was sent after that date, and definitely not signing any objects that were presented to him for autographing after that time. Hey, we all have to draw a line eventually, I guess. But what happens if, let’s say four months from now, he gets a package that was postmarked Oct. 18, but lost in the Royal Mail for weeks and weeks? And for an added boost let’s say it was from someone who had only six months to live? Ooh, do I love mysteries, especially if they involve math. Ringo’s video missive after the jump.
Ringo Starr got pissy with the producers of Live With Regis And Kelly today when they asked him to snip the song he was scheduled to perform down to 2:30, prompting a huffy exit during taping. More »
According to Billboard, the second living Beatle is preparing to put his solo work online: Starr has agreed for the first time to release his Capitol/EMI solo catalog online, including 1970’s “Beacoups of Blues” and “Sentimental Journey,” 1973’s “Ringo,” and 1974’s “Goodnight Vienna, beginning… More »
We apologize if this seems awfully old-farty of us–and if it seems completely random after a post about Jay-Z versus The Game–but Jefitoblog has a rather strange discovery up today: It’s a copy of George Harrison performing “It Don’t Come Easy,” which was (supposedly) one of Ringo Starr’s biggest… More »