
Ringo told that
he’s never had much interest in penning a typical autobiography, which
is why he assembled the photo book from childhood photos, as well as
pics from his Beatles days.
“I’ve been asked to do the autobiography, but I have no real
interest, and I haven’t had an interest in doing that for 20 years now,”
he said. “Then last year when we started looking at what I have and we
started archiving, surprise surprise, I did find all these old
photographs, and I also found two books of negatives, which just blew me
away. So I thought, I’m gonna do a book this way. I’ll put a selection
of the photographs from when I was 1 years old, which is the first
picture in the book, up through my early days growing up in Liverpool
and through the Beatles and my solo career, all the way up to the
All-Starr Band.”
The Grammy Museum exhibition focuses on more concrete items from
Starr’s career. As he told Rock Cellar, “We decided we would archive my
stuff, then out of the blue, [the curator at the museum] asked to put
together a meeting and said, ‘Let’s have a Grammy Museum exhibit of
Ringo.’ So we did have to work a lot harder and a lot faster after he
said that, because he had a date.”
Starr said that both projects helped uncover his past. The exhibit,
in particular, revealed things he had forgotten all about. “[Once] we
stated looking, what we found was incredible,” he said. “I’d had these
two boxes from my mother. My mother died in ’86, and I put these two
boxes away, and I did not open them until last year. It was like
Aladdin’s cave.”
His next project is voicing a character in a ‘Powerpuff Girls’
cartoon special airing on Cartoon Network on Jan. 20. He plays a
“flamboyant mathematician.”
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