It's just weird, any way you look at it. If you appreciate the music, fine, but this hoarding of material --- even to taking apart a house brick by brick --- is borderline fetish. If I were Ringo I'd be creeped by people rummaging through my house and treating it like an artifact dug out of an Egyptian tomb just because I used to live there.
Agreed. I wonder if anyone consulted him on this issue? Too bad the usually-thorough Telegraph omits such an essential point.