Fab Two: Paul Has Ringo’s Back on the Fan Mail Outburst

Filed under: Celebrities, Activism

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 junk fan mail that pours into his office every day for the

last 40+ years. It’s just that Paul has the good sense not to say anything about it. In Paul’s own words:

“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]

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