Ringo admitted in a new interview that he didn’t get over the 1970 breakup of The Beatles for two decades. Who could blame him? They were, and still are, the most beloved band of all time.
Ringo laments the lost glory days of the Fab Four on his new album Postcards From Paradise, particularly with the lyric “I’m looking forward / Not looking back,” which he discussed recently.
Talking to The Times in London, Ringo added: “We can’t not have memories of the past, but we don’t have to live them.”
Even though Ringo has since enjoyed a long and successful solo
career, with little to no help from his friends in the Beatles, he still
had plenty of years – up to two decades – where he turned to alcohol in
an attempt to make the pain of the breakup go away.
“I was mad for 20 years,” Ringo said, presumably meaning he went crazy. “I had breaks in between of not being.”
He admitted even some of his most successful years as a solo artist are blurs to him: “Some of those years are absolutely gone.”
Despite Ringo’s heartbreaking account of the years following the
Beatles’ breakup, he is still standing and continues to put out strong
solo material. It’s just fortunate that he never went too far with his
problems – he entered rehab in 1988, which essentially saved his life.
In retrospect, it’s not surprising that the Beatles member who had
arguably the smallest role in the breakup would be so upset after the
group disbanded. But he has emerged from his darkness a stronger person,
and he’s still here to deliver his musical gifts to the world.
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