{"id":2444271,"date":"2019-05-16T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=835316"},"modified":"2019-05-16T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:11:53","slug":"flashback-ringo-starr-warns-you-with-peace-and-love-to-stop-sending-him-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-ringo-starr-warns-you-with-peace-and-love-to-stop-sending-him-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Ringo Starr \u2018Warns You With Peace and Love\u2019 to Stop Sending Him Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In October 2008, an angry Ringo Starr<\/a> took to his website to warn fans to stop sending him objects through the mail to autograph. \u201cNothing will be signed after the 20th of October!\u201d he said in the bizarre video. \u201cIf that has a date on the envelope, it\u2019s going to be tossed. I\u2019m warning you with peace and love. I have too much to do, so no more fan mail! And no objects to be signed. Nothing! Anyway, peace and love, peace and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 43-second video \u2013 which begins, for some reason, with an extreme close-up of his nose \u2013 posed many questions to fans. They really aren\u2019t allowed to send him legit fan letters? Why the arbitrary date of October 20th? Was it really necessary to say \u201cpeace and love\u201d five times in 43 seconds? The volume of mail is such a burden that it necessitated this sort of video? Did he not stop for a minute to consider how this might come off? (It\u2019s worth noting that Ringo had a very different attitude towards fan mail when he appeared on the Simpsons in 1991.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard Stern became fixated on the video and played it repeatedly on his show over the years. And when Ringo came onto the show last year, he asked him to explain it. \u201cThat was one angry moment,\u201d Starr said with a laugh. \u201cI was signing scratch plates that they have on guitars in New York and someone had screwed one onto a shit guitar and it was selling for three grand on Ebay. And I went, \u2018No.\u2019 I only sign for charity now and mainly my charity and [my wife] Barbara [Bach]\u2019s charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starr makes a fair point. Rock stars of his stature are inundated with professional autograph seekers everywhere they go. Imagine 50 years of people shoving White Album<\/em> records and sharpie pens in your face on the street. It\u2019s no wonder he snapped and posted that video. So all you Ringo fans out there, his statement still stands. No more fan mail. No more autographs. Leave the man alone. You\u2019ve been warned, with peace and love.<\/p>\n

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In October 2008, an angry Ringo Starr took to his website to warn fans to stop sending him objects through the mail to autograph. \u201cNothing will be signed after the 20th of October!\u201d he said in the bizarre video. \u201cIf that has a date on the envelope, it\u2019s going to be tossed. I\u2019m warning you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 06:59:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}