BEATLES MAGAZINE: RINGO STARR: "I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND I’M 24"

Thursday, 3 July 2025

RINGO STARR: "I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND I’M 24"

Ringo turns 85 on July 7 - but he doesn't feel his age at all.
Ringo told the New York Times: "It blows me away.

"I look in the mirror and I’m 24. I never got older than 24."

Ringo's passion for writing and recording music helps him to feel young.

He said: "I love what I'm doing.

"When I first started ... my mother would come to the gigs. She would always say, ‘You know, son, I always feel you’re at your happiest when you’re playing your drums.’ So she noticed. And I do."

Ringo also makes a conscious effort to live in the present, rather than dwelling on the past or focusing on the future.

He said: "I live in the now. I didn’t plan any of it. I love that life I’m allowed to live."

Meanwhile, Ringo previously revealed that he's "excited" to watch Sir Sam Mendes' Beatles movies.

Ringo told People: "I’m excited that [Sam] has taken the madness of making four movies at the same time."

Ringo is curious to see how Sam approaches the project, and the different perspectives he explores.

He said: "My life as a lad, John's life, Paul's life, George's life, I mean, it must interact in some way.

"There’ll be Beatles in mine around when I joined, and there’ll be Beatles in Paul’s. We’ll all be there. So I’m excited to see what he does with it."

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