Ringo Starr Told Paul McCartney Off for Looking His Age
In the 1980s, Paul McCartney started to go gray. He liked the way it looked, but former bandmate Ringo Starr did not.
Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney are both still performing and making music after six decades in the industry. Both men are in their 80s but have a youthful vitality. Starr once pushed his former bandmate to look younger, though. When McCartney’s hair started going gray, Starr scolded him for letting himself go.
In 1986, McCartney was in his 40s and embracing his age. He let his hair go gray and admitted he had no plans to dye it.
“Yeah, I’m leaving [the gray],” McCartney told Rolling Stone. “When you’re past forty, the game is up, you know? My wife actually likes it.”
Starr did not like it, though. He told McCartney off for not coloring it which, McCartney believed, was because it made him feel old.
“Ringo told me off about it, though – he reckoned I ought to color it,” he said. “I think he’s kind of gaugin’ himself by how old I look – like I make him feel old if I look a bit old. But what the hell, you know? This is life. We’re all gettin’ older every second. My main thing is just to try and enjoy it. And I’m very surprised to find that, more often than not, I really do.”
Years later, Starr insulted McCartney’s aging appearance once again.
“I was having dinner with him recently in L.A. with Dave Grohl and our wives,” McCartney told Rolling Stone in 2015. “I know Ringo has been sober for years, so I joked, ‘C’mon, Ringo, have a whiskey.’”
Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com
