Ringo Starr Said People Described His Post-Beatles Life 'Cruelly' but Truthfully: 'It Got Really Sad'

Ringo Starr was angry for years when The Beatles broke up. He dealt with his negative emotions through drugs and alcohol, but they made him feel disconnected from his art. He heard a cruel assessment of his life post-Beatles, but he thought there was some truth to it. Starr said he felt that his life had become sad.

“I was mad,” Starr said, per the New York Daily News. “For 20 years. I had breaks in between of not being.”

He began drinking as a way to deal with the band’s breakup. As a result, his memories from the years after the split are hazy.

“I was drunk,” he said. “I didn’t notice … some of those years are absolutely gone.”

By 1977, Starr was lost. He acted in a number of unsuccessful films, and he stopped playing music he took pride in.

“When I really, really got wrecked, I couldn’t play,” he said, per the book Ringo: With a Little Help by Michael Seth Starr. “For years, I just went downhill. We never made records totally derelict. You got derelict and then you made the records. Occasionally we’d have a … late night, and we’d make music and the next day you’d think, ‘What a load of crap.'”

Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com

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