No, SmartCanucks hasn’t turned into a Beatles fan site. But the response to our recent post about Paul and his McDonald’s boycott was so great that I just couldn’t help but wonder what everyone thought about Ringo’s latest rant.
This video surfaced last week. Ringo is apparently too busy to answer his fan mail anymore. As an older dude I can appreciate what he’s doing. He’s pushing 70. If you were pushing 70 would you want to be dealing with a mountain of fan mail every day? But still — I can’t help but feel posting a video to let everyone know is a little pretentious. Sure it’s nice of him to make it public knowledge — especially if he has a good reputation for responding to his fans — but the whole thing smacks of publicity craving to me.
I’ve only been able to think of two things since this video surfaced — the fan mail scene in A Hard Day’s Night, and The Simpsons episode where Ringo finally replies to Marge’s letter. If it’s still chugging along anything like this, I can see why he’s putting a stop to it;
So what do you think? Attention hungry, or just tired?
These guys need to remember why people like them in the first place. And it’s not because of their crappy attitudes.
From what I understand, he dosen’t want any more mail because people are selling his responses for the signature. So people are making money off his name that way. Whatever. I wouldn’t want to buy his sig.
Seems like they’ve turned into self important grumpy old farts. Just like Elton John.
Actually, I have to take that back in regards to Ringo. Ringo seemed very polite on the vid.
Give him credit. Not all celebrities do what he did. If he wants to stop, that’s his choice. Maybe he’ll change his mind later