Posted on 10/13/2008 6:10:06 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has ordered his fans to stop sending him fanmail.
The drummer says he's got "too much to do" and warns he'll throw any fanmail in the bin after October 20 in a video posted on his website.
"This is a serious message to everybody watching," Starr says in the clip.
"I want to tell you that after the 20th of October please do not send any fanmail to any address you have. If that is the date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed.
"I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fanmail. Thank you. No more objects to be signed. Nothing."
It's not clear whether the wealth of fanmail was trigger by 'Brush With Greatness', the 1991 episode of 'The Simpsons' Starr appeared in where he vows to answer every bit of post he recieved from fans, including answering Marge Simpson's question that "Yes, in England we do have French Fries, but we call them chips!"
If he wanted to be left alone, maybe he should have retired.
He just wants to end the gimme gimmes.
That's one hell of a warning.
President Obammesiah will use the same warning before unleashing his youth corps on dissenters.
I just spoke to Pete Best, he says he’ll sign whatever you send him...
Jeez. Even Charles Manson answers his fan mail.
Seems as though as rich as he is, he could hire a modestly employed fan or a service to accept and read all of his fan mail at a modest cost.
Simple overhead costs for this kind of service seems fair for a relationship built on fans and celebrity.
It is a business deduction that he can well afford.
A lot of drummers are illiterate and try to hide it. I’m just sayin...
Maybe he doesn’t want to “spread his wealth”.........
On tour in the US now.
That’s all right,John Lennon has made up for the loss signing multitudes of voter registration cards in a dozen states!
[I’m warning you with peace and love,]
LOLOL, this might be a new quote for Obama!
Luckily I was never a fan of Ringo.
Alright Dick,we will not write you anymore,because there is a War going on.Would you care to join us?
The Beatles with Pete Best would still be around and rocking, like the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things (the latter of whom, you’d better check out, seriously!)
Johnny Ramone (Republican) on the other hand, was an autograph collector himself (baseball mostly I think, he also collected movie posters). He’d oblige fans and even those who were only obtaining autographs to sell.
Johnny was smart enough to know that not everyone who wanted his autograph would be able to obtain one in person and so if someone was going to pay money on the open market for one, he wanted there to be some authentic ones out there.
I liked CAVEMAN !! Especially a young Barbara Bach !!!!
The Beatles broke up because John and Paul (and Yoko).
Ringo left the band during The White Album (he did manage to get 2 songs on there because it was a double album but other than that, everyone was encouraged to “cut loose” and “experiment” except him). Must have been a rotten feeling to have to endure the decision to let Revolution 9 go ON there (and ALMOST Mary Jane Had A Pain At The Party) and being told that NOPE, there’s no room for you to do something else too.
I was going to wait for someone else to say it first, but I thought Caveman was hilarious.
This is pathetic. Ringo is biting the hand that feeds him. I understand that John Lennon was very gracious with autographs, and even gave one to his killer earlier on the day he was murdered.
I remember liking it as a kid.
However, I saw it a couple of years ago and it was the unfunny movie that wouldn't end.
These guys keep the updates on the Pretty Things with their annual to to semi-annual magazine:
I also found this myspace page (and judging from other comments I've found from the band)... they don't sound 'appy about the way things are in England now...
40 years on from the 1st Summer of Loves hopes for a better world of truth, freedom, peace and love, our dreams have turned into a nightmare. Big Brother (not the strange collection of irrelevant adults, who all live in the same house ) controls, polices, taxes, monitors & mistrusts every move we make and spies on us from dawn to dusk. Our passports, our movements, our inheritances, our wages, our choices, our banking, our cars, & even our personal habits . are ALL under the total control of government. The trains dont work, but you cant drive anywhere . Wanna see the Queen? Gotta pay boy . Gimme your money! And now, a last quiet ciggie in the pub is FORBIDDEN!!! By Big Brother. WE CAN CHANGE THIS YOURE NOT POWERLESS MAKE YOUR FEELINGS CLEAR, MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT AND MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. JOIN THE PROTEST AGAINST CONTROL AND PUT YOUR NAME TO ALL LIGHT UP ADD YOUR EMAIL TO THE PETITION AND LETS FORCE A CHANGE . ALL LIGHT UP STANDS FOR FREEDOM. (Sign the Petition at www.alllightup.com)
HA HA HA!!!
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