Ringo's message is love
Ringo Starr's Message: 'Love' NEW YORK, June 29, 2005 Ringo Starr Backstage Pass Ringo Starr (Photo: CBS) The Beatles in 1969, in what turned out to be their last photo session together: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon (L-R) (Photo: AP/Apple Corps Ltd.) Buy: Choose Love (advertisement) (CBS) Ringo Starr helped take America by storm in 1964, as the drummer for legendary rock band The Beatles. Four decades later, he's still going strong. For his latest project, he got little help from his friends, the Roundheads, and put together a new album titled "Choose Love." "It's still the same, 'Choose Love.' Choose peace," Starr told The Early Show co-anchor Rene Syler during his visit as part of the Summer Concert series. The message from the former Beatle has not changed, and he is still going strong at 64. And though the Beatles song "When I'm 64" seems, in a way, prophetic, Starr says in no way, back then, was he thinking this far ahead. "You don't think that when you're 24," he said. "That's just, like, too far ahead. And, suddenly, you find you are there." Is he saying: Where did all the time go? "No, I know where it went," Starr said, laughing, "I have lived a life. I've done many things. I've had lots of fun with my music, with my painting, with the love of my life, my wife, with the children. It's a whole life going down here." Complimenting him on his looks, Syler predicted he would live to be 100 years old. "The secret of musicians," he said, "is we don't look in the mirror, because till we do, we're all 24." He shared a few more secrets regarding his marriage, a 24-year success. "The secret is that I love that woman dearly, and she loves me. Thank God," he exclaimed. And the secret for the Beatles still being relevant today? "It is the music," he said, "Whatever happens, it's the music. The records we made them still hold up today." Asked what he thinks about what he thinks of reality shows that turn people into music stars overnight, in view of the fact that he paid his dues, Starr said, "I did pay my dues. But the reality shows, I have to confess, I do not watch them. I do see the results where somebody who has won one of those shows is really huge for six months, a year, and then it's, like, they're tossed aside. "I feel blessed that I came up through the ranks from clubs to theaters to stadiums. And that's what I do. I didn't really do it to be famous. I did it because I loved to play." Next for him? "I'm just going to make more music for the rest of this morning," he said. For The Early Show's Summer Concert series, he performed the title track from his new album, as well as "Back Off Boogaloo," from the 1974 album "Goodnight Vienna;" "With A Little Help From My Friends" from the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;" and his classic hit, "It Don't Come Easy" from the 1973 album "Ringo." Starr produced and co-wrote all 12 songs on "Choose Love," which is a tribute to the music and the message of the Beatles, evoking past melodies. "Oh My Lord," in particular, recalls the melody of George Harrison's hit, "My Sweet Lord." Starr's song is dedicated to his late bandmate, who died in 2001. Starr's most recent previous album was "Ringorama," produced in 2003. 

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