A recent Times leader wondered why Ringo Starr hadn't got a knighthood. Ringo Starr?!!? I could hardly believe my eyes. I have thought for 47 years that he was, & is, the luckiest man in the world: to have happened to be the at-the-time drummer {& not a particularly talented one as that,...

I read a quote somewhere, to the effect that the Beatles were dying off in inverse order of their musical talent, and, therefore, Ringo might live forever.

Peter