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killmikelove 
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Registration Date: 08-01-2006
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Favorite 77s album: tom tom blues
Location: eugene, oregon
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Ringo Starr: No more fan mail
Oct. 14, 2008, 5:53 AM EST
LONDON (AP) -- Ringo Starr doesn't want to hear from you. If you do write, your letter will end up in the trash. That's the message from Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr. After 45 years of stardom, he doesn't want to spend any more time answering mail or sending signed photos back to fans.
The fan fatigue led the former Beatles drummer to post a sometimes angry sounding short video clip on his Web site telling fans that any mail sent to him after Oct. 20 will not be read or answered. British television stations broadcast the video on Tuesday.
"It's going to be tossed," he says on the video. "I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace and love, peace and love."
The drummer and singer did not elaborate on the reason behind his decision to cut off a major point of contact with his many fans.
Starr, 68, has maintained a very active touring and recording schedule in recent years, drawing large crowds for performances with his All-Starr band.
The band plays a mix of old Beatles hits, Starr's many solo offerings, and other classics from the 1960s and 1970s. Starr usually serves as front man, though he sometimes plays the drums.
But he has angered longtime fans in Liverpool by telling interviewers that he does not miss his native city. Vandals there beheaded a topiary sculpture of Starr earlier this year — he was the only one of the four Beatles whose likeness was desecrated.
The good-natured drummer, who also enjoyed a brief acting career after star turns in Beatles' films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!," guest starred on a 1991 episode of "The Simpsons" in which he is shown scrupulously answering every piece of fan mail that comes his way.
"They took the time to write to me, and I don't care if it takes 20 years, I'm going to answer every one of them," Starr says on the show.
In his mail, he finds a package from Marge Simpson that contains a portrait she painted of him back in the Beatles heyday. He puts it on his wall and writes back to tell her — a few decades late — how much he likes her painting
In related news, Mike Roe of the 77's has made a similar announcement.
"I've opened up shoeboxes sent to me in the mail asking for lyrics, autograpghs, etc and I've obliged as much as possible. But the volume and nature of the requests have grown so much out of control I have garbage bags of mail and album covers to sign (never mind bras and other assorted items) that I can't get to. My daughter just refuses to help. So please, no more requests, and if I'm in the right mood in person, I might sign one or two items. But no more entire catalogs of 7's and Lost Dogs releases. It's too much and I'm getting too old for this. Let me live in peace and love."
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Sharon
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 06-07-2004
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Favorite 77s album: 88 Miserable Crows Drowning
Location: Ohio
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10-14-2008 18:36 |
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peawinkel
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Registration Date: 09-30-2004
Posts: 3,685
Favorite 77s album: Tom Tom Blues
Location: Alabaster, Alabama
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Mike Roe is such a rock star.
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10-14-2008 20:03 |
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Doctor Love
Doctor Love
Registration Date: 08-24-2004
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Location: on the moon Alice
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"Peace and love, peace and love" .....
That's fucked.
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10-14-2008 22:46 |
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MefLiszto
Baby Elvis
Registration Date: 06-14-2004
Posts: 238
Location: Hamilton, OH
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This makes me so mad, I'm going to bite the head off this chocolate bunny that, due to my delusional anger, looks a tad bit like Mike Roe.
On second thought, he did send my Ichthus tape back to me before he made this rash decision.
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10-15-2008 06:02 |
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Ping Pong Over the Abyss
Unbalanced
Registration Date: 02-21-2006
Posts: 1,110
Favorite 77s album: Too Many...!
Location: In my earbuds...!
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Originally posted by Doctor Love
"Peace and love, peace and love" .....
That's ****ed. |
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