“Every time I see your face, it reminds me of the places we used to go. But all I’ve got is a photograph, and I realise you’re not coming back any more.”
That’s the opening line from Photograph, one of Ringo Starr’s biggest solo hits.
It was released in 1973, but today sounds as though he wrote it specially to fit in with his latest project.
Ringo has an ebook out.
Also called Photograph, it’s full of previously unseen pictures from the former Beatle’s life, from birth through to 1974, with special emphasis on those eight years when he, along with John, Paul and George, ruled the world.
“I’ve always taken pictures,” says Ringo. “It’s been a hobby of mine ever since I could afford a camera, so I wanted to see what I’d got.
“I had stuff which had been put away in drawers over the years, and then I got up in the attic and looked through boxes.
“Turns out my mum had kept everything from those early Beatle days. Letters, photos, everything,” he explains.
Ringo says the memories come flooding back when flicking through the ebook; the way John used to sit in an almost impossible position with his foot wrenched up by his chest, Paul horsing around with roadie Mal Evans, or dressing up manager Brian Epstein in a Beatle wig.
“We didn’t have baths in those days,” he says, while mulling over one image of George in a regal hotel bathroom. There was a bath and a shower behind him, but George would always stand shirt half undone, sleeves rolled up and have a wash in the sink!
“Very Liverpool. Very George!”
n Photograph by Ringo Starr is published by Genesis Publications, priced £8.99. It’s available to download from iTunes or ringophotograph.com
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