John Lennon's Mindset Just Before His Death Led Ringo Starr to Give Him the Ultimate Compliment

The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney is legendary. Yet John and Ringo Starr had a strong bond, too. Even though John bossed Ringo around in The Beatles, the two bandmates grew close over the years. Ringo visited John just before his 1980 murder, and the drummer could help but compliment his friend’s mentality.

Ringo left his London apartment for a sprawling suburban estate while The Beatles were still active. John lived less than a mile away. Yet the drummer still held the lease and let his former abode become a playground for his famous friends.

Jimi Hendrix lived there. Paul recorded some experimental works there. And John and Yoko Ono stripped naked and shot their Two Virgins album cover in Ringo’s former digs. 

John became Ringo’s neighbor when the drummer vacated central London. Later, the drummer moved into his former bandmate’s mansion — and burned some of John’s possessions that were left behind. Ringo roomed with John in California for a period in the mid-1970s. When Ringo visited John just before his murder in late 1980, he was blown away by his mindset, which led to him giving him the ultimate compliment.

Source: Jason Rossi/cheatsheet.com

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