Entertainment Weekly: Ringo Starr dishes on first ever ‘couple’ song with Paul McCartney: ‘It’s not like we don’t know each other’
McCartney and Starr have collaborated numerous times in the past on each other’s releases, but until “Home to Us,” the only duet on McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, they’d never shared vocal credits on a song.
“Well, it’s the first time we’ve ever done it like a couple — we’re both singing it. I’ve sang a few choruses on his tracks. He’s played on my tracks. He’s come over with the bass,” Starr told PEOPLE at his 86th birthday event in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday, joking, “It’s not like we don’t know each other.”
Appearing on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, The Rolling Stones frontman revealed that he never met Elvis Presley because John Lennon warned him against it.
“I remember John telling me, ‘You should never meet your heroes. I would never meet Elvis, Mick, if I were you,'” Jagger recalled. “And so I didn’t. I took John’s advice. It was really stupid of me, really. I’d love to have met Elvis.” He added that Lennon repeated the story several times. “Maybe my Elvis version would have been different,” Jagger reflected.
The Fab Four claim eight of the decade's Top 10 most-streamed albums, including each of the Top 6: Abbey Road (1), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2), The Beatles (3), Revolver (4), Magical Mystery Tour (5) and Rubber Soul (6).
Former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber recently released I’ve Got a Feeling … another album of memorable songs made popular by The Beatles, adding his trademark fingerpicking guitar style to each track.
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy discussed the unauthorized use of Beatles songs in “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones,” the growing presence of artificial intelligence in cinema, and the handmade aesthetic of independent filmmaking during a Q&A at BFI Southbank on July 15, following the U.K. premiere of the film’s 4K restoration.
On the film’s soundtrack, Roy said she and director Pradip Krishen never received a response from the Beatles after asking to use their music. “We wrote to them and said, ‘Can we use your music? We love you.’ They didn’t reply,” Roy said.
Sue was very close to Beatles bassist Paul McCartney: "Paul wrote to me from the Star Club when they were in Hamburg and told me all the gossip," she recalls. "I was right in the middle of it all."
"Then Paul brought me a tape recording from when they'd been in the garage and recorded Love Me Do. He gave me a reel-to-reel tape of it, and I taped over it because I wanted to hear something on the radio. I had no idea how valuable that would have been."
Matching the chart-topping debut of their last studio project, 2023's Hackney Diamonds, the legendary British band has officially drawn level with their 1960s contemporaries The Beatles on 15 chart-topping albums apiece. In the history books of British music, only Robbie Williams holds more, with 16 top spots.
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