Ringo Starr Once Said Being in The Beatles Made Him Bored: 'Sometimes I Feel Like I'd Like To Stop Being Famous
The Beatles’ success provided Ringo Starr fame and fortune but did nothing to lessen the boredom he found in his day-to-day life.Ringo Starr has lived in the spotlight for decades. It didn’t take him long to see it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. The Fab Four brought Ringo fame, but he still got bored in the time between recording sessions and other obligations. The Beatles drummer played in the most popular band ever, met and had intimate relationships with other famous entertainers, and enjoyed a rarefied lifestyle few people from a working-class Liverpool neighborhood could dream of. Sometimes, he wished he could go back.
Ringo partied with Charlie Watts and John Bonham. He formed friendships with T. Rex’s Marc Bolan and Harry Nilsson. The drummer and Nilsson lived with John Lennon in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. Starr partied so hard the bright sun hurt his eyes, so he made his room into a den of darkness, according to Lennon’s girlfriend May Pang.
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