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Ringo Starr Officially Hates You

4:00AM STV | You know how you’ve been writing, editing and rewriting your fan letter to Ringo Starr for the last decade, only to stand at the mailbox time and again, reeling at the note’s inadequate expression of how deeply his work and spirit have sustained you all these years, thus pushing you back to your desk for another few months of wistful, Proustian polishing? Believe us, we relate. As such, Starr’s disclosure Tuesday that he will neither accept nor return fan mail after Oct. 20 has lit an epistolary fire under our arse to finally put this thing to bed. It’s exactly what we needed — especially in the stern, slightly schizophrenic terms Starr bellows in his videotaped warning after the jump. More »

Unexpected Celebrity Fans Of The Cat Empire

4:13PM Jess McGuire | Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome Ringo Starr from some little known Liverpudlian indie band called The Beatles (that name’ll never work) to the illustrious group of folk who admire HAPPY HAPPY FUN TIME BAND The Cat Empire. (Starr) says he is loving music again: playing and listening. The recent 40th anniversary of the release of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band passed him by: it was never his favourite album, too many “effects and horses and dogs on it”. Instead, he likes contemporary bands like the Magic Numbers and Australia’s Cat Empire. “They’re like Madness except they’re Australian and they record in Cuba. And the brass is great, and the rhythm is great …” More »