Ringo Starr’s Biggest Regret When It Came to the Beatles

Though their run was short, the Beatles amassed a career that left them with very little to regret. Though they might have had qualms shortly after their infamous breakup, in hindsight, it was a pretty stellar tenure. In fact, if Ringo Starr regrets anything it’s that they didn’t push harder to get back together. Learn more about why Starr wished he got the band back together before it was too late, below.

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Ringo Starr’s Biggest Regret When It Came to the Beatles

There was never an official Beatles reunion. The individual band members joined forces from time to time, but they never operated under that banner again. Any hopes of that happening were dashed in 1980, when John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman.

Then, a couple of decades later, George Harrison passed away after a battle with lung cancer. His death firmly cemented that any Beatles reunion that might happen in the future would only be halfway complete.

Even before their breakup and those losses happened, the band had taken a step back from touring. After years of playing countless shows with roaring fans, the foursome felt their touring life had grown too complex and difficult to manage. Their solution to that problem was to retire from the stage entirely.

Despite the complications that impeded the Beatles from touring, Starr once said that he wished the band had gotten back together to play a few more shows before it was too late.

“I think the stumbling block was just sitting around and saying, ‘OK, let’s do it,’” Starr once said. “And we never got to that. You know, we did in twos, we talked about it…We still had the songs, and we still could play. We could have put it together. And we could have done ‘A Day in the Life.’ Of course, it’s ended now. John and George are gone.”

We have to think that many Beatles fans feel the same way Starr does. Many of us would’ve liked to have seen the band back out on the road. There are many songs that were released in their post-touring days that never got to shine on stage. Though there are many things to mourn in the wake of Lennon and Harrison’s deaths, the end of their touring days is certainly up there.

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