Fab Two: Paul Has Ringo's Back on the Fan Mail Outburst
OK, I totally agree that Ringo's video announcement to fans -- the one where he threatened to throw all of their fan mail into the recycling bin unopened starting October 20th -- was a colossally bad PR move. Still, when you're a Beatle, you can make all kinds of incindiery statements and have the whole controversy blow over in a couple of weeks (see Lennon's bigger than Jesus). Especially when another more popular Beatle steps in a grants you absolution. In defense of his old friend, Paul McCartney recently spoke out about the fan mail flap -- saying that Ringo was being blasted for simply speaking his mind. As a pretty serious environmentalist himself, Paul has probably felt a little guilty about the mountains of
"We love Ringo... In the world that we live in you're not supposed to say that, so he's always getting in trouble for speaking his mind... I think it's a good quality. It's called honesty, actually."[via Ecorazzi]












