Ringo Starr has reveals farting was key issue to The Beatles success
Ringo reckons The Fab Four reduced tensions on long journeys by confessing to blowing off and says it help keep them close as a band
Ringo Starr has revealed farting was key factor to The Beatles success(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Sir Ringo Starr has revealed that a key factor to The Beatles staying together for so long – was admitting to blow offs! Ringo admitted that The Fab Four reduced tensions on long journeys by confessing to farts rather than deniability.
Ringo, 86, says that the strategy is great advice for any young band – male or female – working together in close quarters in their early years. The Liverpudlian drummer admitted: “If you’re in the van and you fart – own up to it.”
Laughing about his advice, he explained: “We just occasionally with four guys in a three-hour car journey, one of us would make a noise. And at the beginning, it was like ‘well, it wasn’t me.
“And we realized, well, just to get it out of the way, say I did it. And it worked a treat and it took the pressure off.
Ringo admitted that his band mates – John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney – were not particularly smelly performers. He added: “It wasn’t a thing. We didn’t like go oh, ‘I’m going next’.”
Ringo made his admission at his 2026 annual Peace And Love and birthday event at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles – sixty years after his Liverpool act The Beatles last played together live in the USA.
Ringo admitted on camera that he has been trying to stop touring for the last five years, but cannot because he is too hooked on live music.
Starr has been playing with his All Starr Band – made of superstars musicians – since the 1980s and is on the road again later this year on the east coast of the USA. His children no longer believe he will ever stop playing.
But the Liverpudlian drummer and entertainer feels music is “always in my life – that’s the point.”
He explained: “I have been calling it the last tour since 2021 – and my kids are fed up with me now. I say ‘ That’s it – I am not going out anymore’; and .they are like ‘oh dad you said that last year’.
“And I out again. I am out this year. It is what I do. It is how it is. I have got a great band and it just works. We used to rehearse for two days, now we rehearse for two hours and we are ready to rock.”
Ringo – real name Richard Starkey – was joined by wife and former James Bond actress Barbara Bach (now Starkey) at the special bash where a raft of famous musicians played music tributes.
Young fans cheered Ringo, which shocks him: “ I don’t know (why I appeal to them), but I have got 10 grandkids. I don’t know what it is. It is one of those things.”
The star – who turned 86 – held a special call for “Peace And Love” at noon linking to fans around the world online – which has been running now for 18 years.
