Ringo Starr walks off Regis show
p2pnet news | Music:- Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, promoting his new album, “Liverpool 8,” walked off the set of “Live With Regis and Kelly” rather than cut short a song.
He’d planned to perform the title song with Dave Stewart but “due to miscommunication between his publicist, Elizabeth Freund, and the musical director, Starr didn’t realize the performance had to be 2 1/2 minutes or less,” Freund told the Associated Press.
‘Freund said Starr tried to cut about a minute of the song’s 4 minute, 15 second length, down to 3 minutes and 30 seconds, says the story.
“However, according to Freund, producer Michael Gelman said it had to be less than 3 minutes.”
Said Freund :
“We offered to cut back our chat time and asked them to fade or go to commercial. They were not willing to do that and Ringo was not willing to cut it further, so without a compromise we were not able to stay. “Ringo left saying, ‘God bless and goodbye. We still love Regis’.'”
However, according to the story,
A Regis and Kelly spokeswoman, “disputed some of Freund’s contentions” saying the time of his song was almost 5 minutes, not 4 minutes and 15 seconds and, “his appearance had been booked since November and that Starr’s representatives had agreed to the time requirement for the song”.
Meanwhile, “Ringo Starr & Dave Stewart and band will perform a short set of Ringo’s songs LIVE at an exclusive event celebrating the release of Ringo’s new Capitol/EMI album, Liverpool 8!+ – says Starr’s site.
“1pm PST on Friday, January 25 at Los Angeles’ House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. & LIVE webcast on Ringo’s official site.”
Also See:-
Associated Press – Ringo Walks Off `Regis’ Over Song Flap, January 22, 2008
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