Original Beatles drummer Pete Best buries hatchet with Ringo Starr by wishing him a happy 80th birthday
RINGO Starr was offered a surprise olive branch on his 80th birthday — from original Beatles drummer Pete Best.
Best, 78, fired in 1962 just before the band hit the big time with Ringo, appeared to finally bury the hatchet.
He wrote online: “Thought about it and thought why not. Happy Birthday Ringo. It’s a special one. Have a good day.”
Ringo controversially replaced Best in the line-up in 1962, just before the band made it big.
Best later left the music industry to work as a civil cervant for 20 years before starting the Pete Best Band.
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono was among the stars to wish Ringo a happy birthday. She wrote: "Happy, Happy Birthday Ringo! lots of peace and love, yoko."
Meanwhile Ringo and his wife Barbara Bach were pictured in masks by his Peace and Love sculpture in LA.
In an , to celebrate his birthday, the veteran star said: 80? Man, I’m only 24 in here.
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"That’s a good thing and a bad thing. Yeah, 80, it’s like, far out. I mean, it’s like, 'What?' It’s a difficult one.
"70 was easy. And we had a great time in Radio City Music Hall in New York where Paul surprised me and got up and played.
"I think 40 was the hardest. Crossing 40 was like – you know, that damn song, “Life Begins at 40.” That was just the hardest."
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