Beatles Fans Join Together To Save Ringo Starr’s Childhood Home

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Beatles Fans Join Together To Save Ringo Starr’s Childhood Home Posted: 25 Aug 2010 09:45 AM PDT Aug 25, 2010 - By Travis Woods Because Beatles fans know the true meaning of dedication – including buying the 50-year-old toilets of the Fab Four – Spinner reports that they have massed together in Liverpool to save Ringo Starr's childhood home from destruction. The Save Madryn Street (SMS) organization was launched this week by Ringo Starr impersonator Max Frudd: "The Victorian terraced house in Toxteth, where the drummer spent the early years of his life, is one of hundreds in the so-called Welsh streets set to be bulldozed… SMS founders argue the small home attracts thousands of visitors a year and its removal would impact the city's tourism – even though the street is already boarded up. Beatles guide Phil Coppell said the group would fight "tooth and nail" to reverse the decision. "'The homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon are already preserved and Ringo is no less important,' he added. 'We want to see Ringo's birthplace conserved and turned into a proper tourist destination; and we are also taken by the idea that some of the houses could be converted for tourist lets.'" Apparently, Starr's childhood home has been scheduled for destruction for five years now as per a plan to modernize Liverpool homes.  So far, arguments that he's 'The Nice One,' 'harmless,' and 'a really sweet guy' have yet to sway city planners. What do you think of the decision to destroy Ringo's childhood home? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: "Peace Envoy" Blair Gets an Easy Ride in the Independent.

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