Ringo Starr (Spoken Word)

Song Snippet
Boys, by Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell, as sung by the Beatles

I been told when a boy kiss a girl
He takes a trip around the world
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop bop shoo wa)
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop bop shoo wa)
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop shoo wa)
Yeah, she say you do. (bop shoo wa)

My girl says when I kiss her lips
Gets the thrill through her fingertips. (whoa ho!)
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop bop shoo wa)
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop bop shoo wa)
Hey, hey, (bop shoo wa 'n' bop bop shoo wa)
Yeah, she say you do. (bop shoo wa)

Well, I talk about boys, (yeah, yeah, boys)
Don't you know I mean boys? (yeah, yeah, boys)
Well, i talk about boys now, (yeah, yeah, boys)
Ah, boys

Interview
John Babcock with Al Wiman and Roger Christian
Of radio station KWFB, Hollywood, CA

The song is called 'boys'. The boy singing is called Ringo
He's called Ringo because of his passion for wearing lots of rings
Ringo is the most recent addition to the group and he's
Also the oldest member. Ringo's friends call him Richie
A name he picked up in Dingle
One of the toughest areas of Liverpool
Often compared to New York's storied "Hell's Kitchen"
The cobble streets and ancient buildings which surrounded
His terraced home didn't hide the bomb craters
Which were left there in 1940, the year of Ringo's birth
Richie went to St. Silas school in Dingle but dropped out at the age
Of six because of appendicitis. He had complications
Which resulted in hospitalization for a year
Recovering, he went back and started all over again
But at the age of thirteen, a cold got away from him
And he developed pleurisy while on a trip to London
Rushed back to his Liverpool home
He spent another year in hospital
That ended schooling and Ringo went to work
In an engineering company
In 1959, around Christmas time, Ringo got his first drum kit
He was eighteen at the time
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Ringo, the smallest member of the group
Standing five feet eight inches tall
Joined John, Paul, and George in the predawn era of Beatlemania
Complete with beard. The beard was shaven, his sideburns saved
And the transformation began
Rule number one, forget the haircuts
And this he did. In fact, so successfully that some observers
Began to believe that his brown-haired locks
Were longer than those of George
"No, George's is longer than mine. Yeah, mine's a scruffy mess."

Although Ringo has been involved in The Beatle
Mad movement for over a year, he's still amazed at the impact
The group has made. In Ringo's words
"None of us have quite grasped what it's all about yet
It's washing over our heads like some huge tidal wave
But we're young and youth is on our side
And it's youth that matters right now
I don't care about politics or anything. Just people
And the people certainly seems to care about The Beatles
" As Ringo puts it, "We're international figures
Everyone wants to investigate us and get inside us
And try to understand what makes a Beatle tick
They sent big writers down to talk to us
Writers who say they want to talk to
Us about our sociological significance
In Birmingham, there were dozens
Of policemen controlling screaming fans
At the studio doors while we rehearsed a television program."
"Well," Ringo says, "If they didn't scream, I guess we wouldn't be
Where we are today. But don't ask me to explain it."
For Ringo is not one for explanation
Or for that matter talking either
You see, Ringo is the quiet one. He sits at his drums
Like some Buddhist idol and wears a worried frown
More often than a smile. Once in a while, he lets a smile
Shatter his melancholy saying
"I'm not really miserable. It's just me face."

Ringo considers his initiation into the group
As the greatest single event of his life. To him
The taste of success means
That his mother doesn't have to work anymore
He takes great pleasure in providing those things for his mother
Which increase her happiness

Beatle manager Brian Epstein considers Ringo
A tremendous blossoming talent
And goes a step further to say
" I think he will prove to have great acting ability
Probably the greatest of the four
"Ringo sometimes refers to himself as the odd-ball Beatle
Perhaps because of the fact that fate dubbed him
With the distinction of being the ingredient
Which completed the quartet
When asked how he feels with the label
Of the "different" member of the group, his dry sense
Of humor bubbled in this reply, "Well, I, I've, you know
I've always been a drummer and I'm, I've always sat at the back
So I enjoy it at the back
When they start throwing things it's a good place to be."

Although he likes to sing, he prefers to please his fans
By playing his drums
And leaving the vocal work
To the other three members of the group
When asked if he would like
To take the spotlight to sing more often
He modestly replied, "Uh, no I think when we do a show one
Of them's enough for me. And it's more fun for the kids
If three of them are singing at once than just me."
"It isn't the screaming fans or the things they throw that affect me
That's normal. You get used to it. I love 'em and it's great
To know they love you. It's a feeling that I might let them down"
The feelings of Ringo Starr

Well, Ringo's worries in this department are completely unfounded
Because his fan mail often numbers the greatest
But all the fan mail and adulation heaped
Upon Ringo hasn't changed his attitude at all
He shares the same likes and dislikes of his fellow Beatles
As Ringo would put it, "I'm not interested in living it up
All the money's invested. I don't even know how much it is
I don't take out very much, just for clothes and a few cigarettes
When it ends, "Well", Ringo says, "I've been skinned before
But I'd like to have enough to do something
Well, something with me hands
I've always loved basket work or pottery
Shaping something, making something
Being able to say I did that."
Right now, Ringo, along with the rest of the Beatles
Is making something: musical history