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“You’ll be five next year on October the ninth, the same day that I’ll be forty. You have to be each number for a whole year. And a year is 365 days. That’s how long a year is. 365 days”

“Dear John, I remember when we first met, at Woolton, at the village fete. It was a beautiful summer day and I walked in there and saw you on stage… I remember writing our first songs together. We used to go to my house, my Dad’s home…  We wanted to be famous… And then on your 21st birthday you got 100 pounds off one of your rich relatives up in Edinburgh, so we decided we’d go to Spain. So we hitch-hiked out of Liverpool, got as far as Paris, and decided to stop there, for a week… I remember introducing you to my mate George, my schoolmate, and getting him into the band by playing “Raunchy” on the top deck of a bus. You were impressed. And we met Ringo who’d been working the whole season at Butlin’s camp - he was a seasoned professional - but the beard had to go, and it did. Later on we got a gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool which was officially a blues club…  We’d been on a van touring later and we’d have the kind of night where the windsceen would break. We would be on the motorway going back up to Liverpool… We got to know each other. These were the ways we got to know each other… And then came the USA, New York City… We’d wanted to be famous, now we were getting really famous.  This letter comes with love, from your friend Paul.” 

happy 79th birthday, sir richard starkey!  »  july 7th, 1940

Ringo Starr. Born July 7th, 1940.