RINGO: "I GO TO THE GYM EVERY DAY AND I WATCH WHAT I EAT.THERE´S NO REAL SECRET,YOU JUST HAVE TO WORK AT IT”

Ringo knows “It Don’t Come Easy” — especially his recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.

“It was about time, and thank you,” Ringo tells the Daily News.

He had been in the Hall of Fame with The Beatles since 1988, but was the last member of the band to get recognition for his solo work when he was inducted in April.

“I was in there, as we all were, as the Beatles, but I was the last one to get in as a solo artist,” Ringo says. “Apart from that I thought it was great. I thought it was a great honor — thank you, Lord! — for something I do really well, which is drum.”

Ringo, who will play the Kings Theater in Brooklyn with his All Starr Band on Halloween night, hasn’t lost too much sleep over the delay though — he hasn’t had time to.

 

Ringo seen here onstage during the 30th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony in April.

Besides touring the U.S., Mexico, and South America since February, Ringo also released his 18th solo album, “Postcards From Paradise,” in March, and published “Photograph,” a collection of his personal pictures, last month.

Ringo, who turned 75 in July, has an envious energy level. “I work out. I’ve been in this town two days and I’ve been to the gym twice,” he says while on a tour stop in Victoria, British Columbia. “I go to the gym every day and I watch what I eat. There’s no real secret, you just have to work at it.”

He also doesn’t waste energy procrastinating. “I’ve always had that energy that if I’m going to do something, then I do it,” he says. “I don’t think, ‘Oh God, I don’t want do it.’ If I’ve said yes — and I have that privilege of saying yes or no to things — but if I say yes, then I do it.”


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