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GasLightStreet
Wow.
Charlie is 79!
Paul is 78.
Mick and Keith will be 77 this year.
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GasLightStreet
Wow.
Charlie is 79!
Paul is 78.
Mick and Keith will be 77 this year.
Amazing so many of these icons still around, maybe not at the top of their game but still affecting so many people around the years almost 6 decades later.
I wonder what Elvis would have morphed into if he'd taken a slightly different path.
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GasLightStreet
Wow.
Charlie is 79!
Paul is 78.
Mick and Keith will be 77 this year.
Amazing so many of these icons still around, maybe not at the top of their game but still affecting so many people around the years almost 6 decades later.
I wonder what Elvis would have morphed into if he'd taken a slightly different path.
I think about that. Elvis, Jim Morrison, Janice... Bon Scott. Kurt Cobain. I know there are more but those are the ones I wonder about sometimes.
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GasLightStreet
Wow.
Charlie is 79!
Paul is 78.
Mick and Keith will be 77 this year.
Amazing so many of these icons still around, maybe not at the top of their game but still affecting so many people around the years almost 6 decades later.
I wonder what Elvis would have morphed into if he'd taken a slightly different path.
Ringo had the least to live up to. Ringo could enjoy being a @#$%& Beatle, in a way the others couldn't. Ringo is a great drummer, but the others had such extraordinary talent so early on. John and Paul had to beat their Beatles work. Which I'd argue they never did, even though I love a lot of John's solo stuff, and some of Paul's too. Listen, George came out of the @#$%& gate with All Things Must Pass then never really did another great solo studio album again. That just happens. They didn't have time to enjoy it cause they had to top it. Ringo just had to live. Ringo could enjoy life and be with his friends. Just show up. It was a totally different circumstance. They all found happiness: John with Yoko and Sean, Paul with Linda, George with Monty Python then later Olivia and Dhani. They all had lives, but yes, I'd agree that all the way Ringo had it the best off and its so wonderful he's still here and still Ringo. But again, the credit I give him is he had to make a life from a completely different place. You could argue he didn't have to do anything because he would always be a Beatle and there's your meal ticket, but he easily could have been the "untalented" Beatle the rest of his life in comparison to the other 3. But his attitude is just so "Ringo" that I think it made his whole life great. If that makes sense.Quote
jbwelda
I think in retrospect, Ringo came out of that whole mess the best off. He gives the impression of really enjoying life, which the other three had a real problem with if you ask me.
jb