After The Beatles broke up, Ringo Starr and John Lennon maintained a pleasant relationship regardless of the discontent roiling between the 4 former band members. Lennon and Starr labored collectively on music after the cut up, and Lennon wrote songs for his former bandmate. He additionally provided recommendation to Starr relating to the path of his profession. In a letter, Lennon advised Starr he ought to file music that sounded extra like Blondie.
Ringo Starr had a detailed reference to John Lennon
After The Beatles broke up, Lennon was livid with George Harrison and Paul McCartney for the way in which they handled Yoko Ono. Starr had been a lot friendlier to her, although, so their friendship didn’t take as large of successful. Although Lennon had a repute for being mercurial, Starr noticed a special aspect to his former bandmate. He recalled seeing Lennon shortly earlier than his demise.
“He and Yoko came visiting to our lodge, and we had a good time saying ‘whats up’ once more,” Starr mentioned, per the e book Ringo: With a Little Assist by Michael Seth Starr. “His head was collectively. His album was finished, and we labored all of it out that come January, we had been going into the studio collectively. Although he was at all times handled within the press as a cynical put-down artist, John had the most important coronary heart of all of us. He was so up, so completely happy then — he blew me away, he was so completely happy.”
John Lennon wrote to Ringo Starr to supply recording recommendation
Through the years, Lennon invited Starr into the studio with him and provided him songs, comparable to 1973’s “I’m the Best.” He additionally gave Starr songwriting recommendation in a letter. In 1979, Lennon wrote to Starr to inform him that he ought to intention to file music that sounded extra like Blondie.
“BLONDIES’ HEART OF GLASS IS THE TYPE OF STUFF Y’ALL SHOULD DO – GREAT & SIMPLE,” he wrote, per The John Lennon Letters.
In 1980, Lennon and Starr had made plans to file collectively for Starr’s new album the next yr, with Lennon producing two tracks. Maybe if this had occurred, Starr’s music would sound extra like Blondie’s.
The drummer turned down a possibility to file his bandmate’s tune
Lennon and Starr deliberate to file collectively in Jan. 1981. Lennon died in Dec. 1980, in order that they by no means had the prospect. Whereas Starr had deliberate to incorporate Lennon’s songs “No one Instructed Me” and “Life Begins at 40,” he couldn’t carry himself to within the wake of his good friend’s homicide. “No one Instructed Me” finally charted at No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart after its launch on Lennon’s 1984 posthumous album, Milk and Honey.
Starr was deeply impacted by Lennon’s demise and nonetheless will get emotional when discussing it.
“I’m emotional now considering of him 40 years in the past speaking about me on his tape and considering of me,” he advised Rolling Stone in 2019. “The 4 of us had been nice associates with a few aspect points. And it was far out. So anyway, I didn’t know act [after Lennon died]. After which I acquired again to LA, and I grieved, after which after all you at all times undergo the grief.”