Ah! Ringo Starr! Currently the fourth most intelligent Beatle. Yes. We realise two of them are dead. Even the ghost of Lennon wouldn’t be so daft as to warn people with peace and love about sending him shit to the afterlife.
Yet this isn’t a bad thing. It’s because Ringo Starr is so insultingly stupid that he’s so great. In The Beatles Anthology series, all the best one-liners were his. He swore like nobody’s business and showed off a variety of spectacularly dismal waistcoats and mullets. What a guy!
However, we would like to see his house knocked down please because he’s an ungrateful swine.
Like slagging people’s mums, never knock somewhere you don’t live. It doesn’t matter if you once resided there, you can’t slate somewhere if people still call it their home. This is especially the case if you’re in Liverpool.
Liverpool is a tough city and those that live there will fiercely defend it to any naysayers. In private, they’ll slag it off ’til the cows come home, but they’re allowed because they’re scousers, plastic or otherwise.
So when Ringo Starr kinda shrugged his shoulders on the Jonathan Ross show and pretty much said Liverpool was a bag of gash, there was uproar in Merseyside.
How dare he?! He soon buggered off to America or the Home Counties or whichever glitzy craphole he lives in now! How dare he have the front to sneer at the place that helped to propel him to stardom?!
He’s thick, y’dummies! Of all the Fabs, he was the one most likely to say “Liverpool? Too wet, too cold and full of scrubbers, said Thomas”, right?
So he won’t give a monkeys that his birthplace is getting demolished will he? Sod him if he does. It’ll serve him right for sneering one off down that long, famous snout of his.
9 Madryn Street, in Dingle, is probably going to get hauled down and redeveloped which has seen fans who presumably don’t live in the area, and thereby, don’t need a place to live in Liverpool, campaigning to save the building. Yeah! That’s what Liverpool needs! Sod people living under a roof! We want a Ringo Museum where we can look at a 1950s kitchen while a man sings ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ down the stairs while wearing half a parsnip on his nose!
Council leader Joe Anderson says:
“The community in that area have been waiting for 11 years to have these houses demolished and believe they have waited long enough”
Chairman of the campaign to Save Madryn Street, Philip Coppell, disagrees and says:
“Number 9 is a priceless tourist resource that the city would be mad to destroy.”
Of course it is Philip. And people really love his ‘Goodnight Vienna’ LP just as much as they enjoyed listening to She Loves You and Ticket To Ride.
That said, this is pretty cool.
Oh forget that!
Sod it. Pull it down. hecklerspray will help if you want.
You hire the skip and we’ll bring the lump hammers.
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Philip Coppell says
What a nasty, vitriolic out pouring that says more about you than it does about Ringo.
Cookie Monster says
What a link you committed there (http://www.savemadrynstreet.co.uk/). After reviewing every detail, I want to go to that place and light matches, swing hammers, and generally perform demolition stuff. Had you said, “It’ s quite a nice brick box that represents a certain period in the history of this place” I may have felt… I dunno…. something. That you up and ruined it by declaring something like, “And RINGO was pooped unto the world and reared (either way) here, and possibly taught the art of percussion a la slightly retarded person un-rhythmically slapping sticks against drums, following the school of Charlie Watts” totally ruined it. Burn it; burn it all; burn it with fire, and then let Yoko build an outhouse upon it.
Mark caspary says
I dont think Ringos comments on the show were that bad. I think he was really kinda of joking maybe people took it wrong, but his comments were not really nasty. Its just he’s grown up and moved on and was honest enough to say so. I don’t think any of the other Beatles kept a home in Liverpool or visited there that. Ever much wonder why??
Bob Bobbett-Bobsley says
Ringo is fabulously rich, was a member of the biggest band ever, has travelled the world, the pick of the worlds women, probably has his own hand-made Melton Mowbray pork pies delivered by the crate, has met the worlds most famous people, drank as much booze as he could ever wish for (and more I’d guess), etc. If he’s stupid (which I don’t think he is) then I’m sure he’s not bothered. I should imagine he’s doesn’t give a fuck about whether his old house is knocked down or not, or indeed about Liverpool, or rubbish blogs trying to write a funny article (and failing). Thanks for the Harry & Ringo clip though. That was worth scrolling down for!
hater says
History of the Beatles
1) sub-Little Richard type bullshit
2)backwards trippy nursery rhyme type bullshit
3) boring AOR type bullshit
beatles are shit mate
Victor says
@hater: If the Beatles are shit, then the same must be said for 90% of the music produced since they broke up, right?
T. says
Do people of the world really have to listen to scousegits about their lives in Liverpool? There are countries and cities in the world that are more poorer than Liverpool and went through more tough times then this city. And yet we have to listen to Liverpool’s butthurt crying over a joke. ‘Oh wah wah wah Ringo says something bad about my home town’ and the rest of the world don’t give a shit. Face the fact, not EVERYONE cares for Liverpool anyway.