He's Ringo. And Nobody Else Is.
Though the pair had become chummy since meeting five years earlier in Los Angeles, backstage at a concert Weinberg was playing with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Weinberg remained somewhat intimidated by his boyhood hero in the early stages of their friendship. (The ever-amicable Starr offered advice: 'Sometimes it helps if you call me Richie.')
While celebrating at Tittenhurst Park — the sprawling estate outside London that had previously belonged to John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Starr turned to his younger friend, then 34, and said something that remains an inside joke between them: 'Well, Max, I'm going to be 45. Doesn't that make you feel old?'
That line is classic Ringo — a dryly clever, double-take koan from rock 'n' roll's Yogi Berra, the man whose tossed off 'Ringo-isms' became immortalized in Beatles song titles like 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows.'
Each year, Starr would update the line for Weinberg, until its recitation became something of an annual tradition. 'I imagine if I was speaking to him on July 7,' Weinberg said in a phone interview, 'him saying to me, 'I'm 85.' And it doesn't sound so old anymore.'
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