*REPOST OF THE ORIGINAL TROUBLE-STARTER.* “My personal standard is that If someone represents, ‘A Beatle said this,’ it better damn well be something a Beatle said.”
Tag: Ringo Starr
We find ourselves at a crossroads: The Mark Lewisohn Disaster
“The only obligation we owe to history is to rewrite it.” —Oscar Wilde
Making magic: “And all those people had to die” • Mark Lewisohn’s evolving story of Ringo and the Hamburg flood
LEWISOHN: “It was because of the flood that he was available for The Beatles again. … And all those people had to die for that- for that to happen. It was over three-hundred.” • Why?? Why would Ringo have stayed in Germany after his contract ended??
DESIGNING LEWISOHN: Where was Paul when John needed him? Who could know?
Mrs. Harrison is saying that she sent George to get John out of his house so they could all play together “in their group.” Not, where was Paul? “It could be they didn’t see much of each other”—but could it? It could be that Paul went ice skating in Sweden, EXCEPT HE FUCKING DIDN’T. Why are you lying to me in legalese in a Beatles biography?
Dad – Artfully Annoying – People Magazine: April 5, 1976
“He smokes Kools instead of stogies, but in every other flamboyant excess, Bill Sargent is the Don King of the showbiz hill…”
