They said: ‘We used to go on long plane journeys, rent huge villas, stock up the bars, hide and get deranged.’ I was always hidden away in a room reading because Mum and Dad were out of it.’ Barbara and Ringo wrote a foreword to former Beatles press officer Derek Taylor’s 1992 book about alcoholism, Getting Sober. Their troubles made me a better academic. Daughter Francesca Gregorini has said: ‘It was their drugs heyday. They were convinced they were gonna die unless they got help.’īach’s two children were grateful for the refuge of boarding school. He added: ‘Ringo said that since they married, virtually all they’ve done is sit in a room and use drugs. In addition, Ringo has a history of freebasing (smoking cocaine).’ ‘Ringo was snorting up to a gram of coke a day, and Barbara said she’d been using about half a gram. Ringo and Barbara also are cocaine users. One friend said at the time: ‘They’ve both been drinking heavily every day for years.
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Ringo moved on from Brandy Alexanders to wine and was said to be putting away 16 bottles a day, plus pills, at one stage. As Ringo observed in 1989: ‘We would sit around for hours and talk about what we were going to do, and of course I’d get so bleeding drunk I couldn’t move.’ He dragged Barbara down into a pit of lethargy. I played Washington with the Beach Boys - or so they tell me. ‘I’ve got photographs of me playing all over the world but I’ve absolutely no memory of it. He said: ‘I got involved with a lot of different medications and you can listen to my records go downhill as the amount of medication went up.
Ringo’s 1983 album Old Wave didn’t make the charts. Barbara told reporters: ‘I love the man, and that’s it.’īut the early years of the marriage were professionally and personally disastrous. They were married at Marylebone Register Office on April 27, 1981. ‘I want to live every minute with Barbara,’ he said. By the time the director called ‘Cut!’ they were an item, with Ringo later admitting that within five days of setting eyes on her, he was deeply in love. They were both cast in the film farce Caveman - Ringo was the non-speaking lead. The real secret of Ringo's youthful glow is his happy marriage to Barbara Bach (pictured), and their mutual rescue from a hell of drink and drugs
Ringo came with considerable demons and one failed marriage behind him - to fellow Liverpudlian Maureen Tigrett, which ended in 1975 - when he met Barbara, a model and actress.Ī policeman’s daughter raised in Queens, New York, Barbara was divorced with two children. But the real secret of his youthful glow is his happy marriage to Barbara Bach, and their mutual rescue from a hell of drink and drugs. He has embraced the Californian lifestyle, and it clearly suits him. Ringo, who grew up in poverty in a tiny terraced house in Dingle, Liverpool, is so strict about his diet that he says broccoli is his main course, and won’t even have a slick of butter on his baked potato - he takes olive oil and brewer’s yeast instead. ‘Just working out and eating carrots,’ says Ringo.Ī Pilates fan, he does indeed work out daily, and has been a vegetarian for years. But the world’s richest drummer shrugs and says his secrets are simple. Some suggest he has had a hair transplant, or a nip and tuck here or there.
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So how has Ringo done it? Well, his full head of suspiciously deep-brown hair gives him a youthful look, and the dark glasses he has worn continually, indoors and out, for around three decades also help. He certainly looks decades younger than fellow surviving Beatle Paul McCartney, 73. Indeed, pictures of the former Beatle out in London with his son were published last week and it was remarked that Ringo looked younger and trimmer than Jason, who is 48.
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Such is his fame that Ringo still causes a sensation when he appears in public. He and wife Barbara - also enviably slim and glamorous at 68 - are regular visitors to the store and you can’t really miss them. As he wanders the aisles, it is hard to believe that he is 75. Indeed, pictures of the former Beatle out in London with his son were published last week (above) and it was remarked that Ringo looked younger and trimmer than Jason, who is 48Īn unassuming figure, as slender as a teenager, he habitually wears all black and some jingly silver jewellery.
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