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LET ME BE, RINGO STARR TELLS HIS FANS
FAN MAIL IS NO LONGER FAB FOR BUSY One clever clip has fans waving
Beatle Ringo Starr. pens and papers at Ringo until his
The former member of pop famous shout, “I’ve got blisters on
music’s most famous group no lon- my fi ngers” — from The Beatles
ger will answer his mail or sign rocker “Helter Skelter” — is heard.
autographs, and the feedback that The more mean-spirited satirists
followed his announcement is as var- fl ash words such as “delusional” onto
ied as the Fab Four’s song catalog. the original message. Even worse,
Starr recently posted a video on one depicts the late George Harrison
his Web site explaining why, after as a skeleton berating his former
45 years of dutiful cooperation, band mate.
fan fatigue has set in. The clip was A more rational reaction: Let it
broadcast on British television, The be. Some fans wrote that the good-
Associated Press reports, and quickly natured Starr should be thanked for
made its way onto YouTube. answering his own fan mail for such
“It’s going to be tossed,” Starr, 68, a long time and acknowledged his
STARR QUALITY? Ringo Starr is no longer
says on the video. “I’m warning you right to privacy.
taking fan mail or signing autographs.
with peace and love, I have too much One writer waxed philosophical.
to do. So no more fan mail. Thank “It makes you wonder what’s worse “The Simpsons,” guest-star Ringo
you. And no objects to be signed.” — sending fan mail to the drummer obsessively answered his fan mail,
Fans as well as video posters of a pop band that broke up nearly 40 saying, “They took the time to write
swiftly countered with a stream of years ago, or Ringo actually answer- to me, and I don’t care if it takes 20
inspired YouTube entries and writ- ing it?” years, I’m going to answer every one
ten retorts. Ironically, in a 1991 episode of of them.”
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