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.
http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/scene/standing.htm
And the Chapman copy of the LP has been auctioned. Someone picked it up at the scene. It was used as evidence but then returned to someone other than Chapman.
(look on the left side of this early Rhino Record).