Ringo shared that he thinks this new three-part film is a more accurate portrayal of the dynamic of the group — originally comprising Ringo, Paul, John and George — than the original 1970 film Let It Be.
“It took one of the dull moments of the month, because we were there a month and it was all based on that downer,” he says. “I thought it was not really showing what it was like. I think you see the joy,” he adds of the new film. “We found 56 hours of unused footage mainly filled with laughter.”
The original movie focused on the tension among the group, 16 months before The Beatles split up.
When asked if he still considers his groupmates “his best friends in life,” Ringo says, “I do. I had dinner with Paul and we were in London last week. We’re still pals.”
We usually talk about how badly he’s dressed,” he says with a laugh. “We talk about anything anybody talks about. About the meal, about football, about music. I don’t know why people think we have different things to talk about. We talk about the same s— everybody talks about.”
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night, the drummer also shared that the two FaceTime “regularly.”
“I was just in England and we actually saw each other physically,” Ringo said, later noting that he and wife Barbara Bach went out to dinner with McCartney and his wife, Nancy Shevell, as well as late bandmate George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison.
Kimmel asked Ringo if “people lose their minds” when the group walks into a restaurant together, but the drummer said that wearing face masks amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has helped with anonymity. “With the mask on, I can go anywhere,” Ringo said.
Ringo released an EP titled Zoom In Zoom Out with a song featuring Paul McCartney earlier this year and followed it up with the recently released Change the World, with a lead single of the same name.
“It’s so little energy to put into the state of the world today. It’s falling apart. What are we going to leave our kids our grandkids?” he said about the track.
Ringo also spoke about a song his late bandmate George Harrison wrote for him called “Hey Ringo” that was found by the late Beatles’ wife.
“It blew me away. Yeah, how far out is that? I didn’t know,” he says. “I wished [I knew about it] while he was still around.”
José Carlos Almeida
