Voici l'integralité de l'interview de Ringo Starr par Larry King:

KING: We welcome to LARRY KING LIVE a good friend, a great guy, Ringo Starr. Today is his -- hard to believe it -- 68th birthday. And he's made it a special day, called peace and love. He's now, by the way, on the 10th Ringo Starr and his All Stars tour. And his limited edition art book, "Painting Is My Madness" is also available everywhere.

First, happy birthday.

RINGO STARR: Oh, thank you, Larry.

KING: You had cake and what?

STARR: And peace and love.

KING: What's happening in Chicago?

Are you working there tonight?

STARR: Well, Chicago was great. You know, we're on tour, so it -- we just happened to be in Chicago today. We were in Nashville last night. And, you know, we started -- I did an interview and they said what do you want for your birthday. And so I said well, it would be great if at noon everyone could go peace and love. And the support has been incredible. So the dream is coming true. So we're on the streets of Chicago with thousands of people and everyone peace and loving at noon. So it was great.

KING: How did you come up with the idea?

STARR: Oh it came in a dream -- flaming pie. It's just -- I just thought it would be a nice thing when, you know, because it's my birthday and I'm on tour, everybody is saying what do you want for your birthday? So I thought well, why not at noon doesn't everybody go peace and love?

KING: That was something the Beatles were always concerned with, wasn't -- weren't they, those kind of themes?

STARR: Well, yes. It was part of our generation, of the '60s -- middle '60s, of course and, you know, with flower power and peace and love and that -- I'm just keeping it rolling. That's what I'm doing.

KING: Did you ever write a song with that title?

STARR: I haven't. John wrote that great one, all we are saying is give peace a chance.

KING: By the way, do you think of them much, John and George?

STARR: Well, no. I don't sit there like day in and day out thinking about them. But, you know, certain things happen or I see something and it brings, you know, the band or the individuals to mind. And, you know, especially when I'm touring, I actually dedicate one of the songs to George. He was my friend. And, you know, it's just like life, you know what I mean, the thoughts come and go. But I don't just sit there thinking about them day and night.

KING: We have no course -- other course, but is it hard to accept aging?

STARR: Well, you know, I haven't accepted it yet, Larry, like you.

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STARR: You know, I'm 24.

KING: You've got a good point.

Do you still get a kick -- you don't have to perform, right?

I mean you could retire.

STARR: Sure.

KING: Why do you perform?

STARR: I perform because that's what I do. When I was 13, the dream was to be a drummer. I didn't want to be a guitarist or anything else. I wanted to be a drummer. That happened. I started playing with local musicians and I always wanted to play with the best musicians around. I ended up in the biggest band in the world with the best musicians. I'm still doing it now. The dream unfolds all the time. I love to play. I love to perform. It's a lot of fun, and it just happens to be what I do.

KING: But it's never a grind? STARR: No. Hotels are a grind. The traveling's always a grind. The good things that come out of that is that for two hours and 20 -- two hours and 15 minutes a night, you get a chance to just have a great time. On the down time, of course, you mentioned it, painting is my madness. I have my computer, so I do these paintings on the computer. Now, they're available in a limited edition. And the book has just come out called "Painting is My Madness." That's for a good cause. We just keep doing what we do.

KING: It's Peace and Love Day with Ringo Starr. He's 68 years old. That's the theme of his birthday.

STARR: The new 68 is 28.

KING: I'm sorry, 28. The fans that come to your concerts, what age range? What age range?

STARR: They go from my age to like last night we had a six-year- old, an eight-year-old, teenagers. It's such a mixed bag. It's incredible.

KING: How is the all-star band picked?

STARR: I picked them because the first rule is that you have to have had a it in the '60s, which I had, '70s, which I had, '80s or '90s. We're the best 1-800-band that goes live. You know, Colin A from Men at Work, Edgar Winter, Billy Squire, Gary White, "Dreamer Weaver," Hamish from the Average White Band. Everybody on stage has had hits. The thing is, for the summer collectively, we all get together and support each other. I play on all their songs. They play on mine. Some of them I do from the front. I have this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great. He does those and then I get up and play the drums. I win both ways.

KING: We have a birthday surprise for Ringo when we come back. Don't go away.

STARR: OK.

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KING: We're back with Ringo Starr, he is an Chicago. It's his 68th birthday, and the theme is --

STARR: Peace and love.

KING: Joining us on the phone is Yoko Ono.

YOKO ONO, WIFE OF JOHN LENIN: Hi, Larry. Hi, Ringo.

STARR: Hi, Yoko, great to hear your voice.

ONO: Happy birthday and many more. Larry, because he's not there and you wouldn't know, but these days, I've had an occasion to meet him a few times and he's getting younger and younger. I don't know why. What does he do? KING: He says he's 24.

ONO: Anyway, did you know that -- I just want to tell you this, that he's a painter.

KING: I know, yes.

ONO: His book, I just read, I was so surprised because it's a very good one. I hope somebody will give him a show because it's really spot on, you know. It's great one. And he is saying that playing drums for me is a group thing. It's totally a band thing. Painting is a solitary thing. And the title is called "Painting is My Madness." It's really mad stuff. It's great.

KING: Yoko, what makes Ringo Starr special?

ONO: I think that with somebody who is so incredible and talented, I think he had this thing about just being cooperative when he was in the band. In other words, he didn't try to say, me, me, me, I'm the star. He was just playing with the other people in the band. There was a peacefulness and lovingness about it. He was always like that. So, I think that's something that was very special in those groups of people in the '60s, where everybody was saying, me, me, you know.

KING: You and Ringo were on the show last year with Paul and Olivia, George's widow, in Las Vegas. That was a really special night. Do you try to keep in touch, Yoko?

ONO: Of course, we do things together, yes.

KING: You want to sing happy birthday to him?

ONO: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Ringo. Happy birthday to you, and many more.

STARR: Thank you, Yoko.

KING: Was that a nice surprise, hearing from Yoko?

STARR: Yes. What a surprise. We were just in New York and Barbara and I went turnover say hi. We're friends and there's e-mail communication or phone. If we're in the same sort of part of the world, we can hook up, but it's another thing. We're not in each other's pockets.

KING: The house you were born, Number 9 Madrin street, in Liverpool, is facing demolition because English heritage has decided not to list it for preservation. Paul McCartney's home was bought by the trust. George Harris' home is a family residence, no danger of anything happening. Are you ticked?

STARR: No, I don't mind. What they want to do is knock my neighborhood town, and then they had a big campaign to save my house, the house I was born and lived in my first five years, and put it somewhere else. I never thought, you know, why would you put it somewhere else? This is where I was. It would be like me knocking down the house down in Liverpool and put it next to your big house in wherever you live. Makes no sense.

They can do what they like. I am not going to stay awake. They want to save it, they don't want to save it; it's up to them.

KING: You upset folks in Liverpool when you said during a BBC interview that there was nothing you missed about the place?

STARR: I know. I'm being interviewed. The guy is very humorous. We were having a lot of fun and ten people got upset about it, and the other millions knew I was having fun. I had just seen -- that weekend that we were in Liverpool, I had just seen all of my family. We had a tea for 27 of my family members and friends. Of course, you miss them. You know what I mean? I haven't lived there for over 40 years. Besides, only the family -- I love the family, but, you know, I'm not going back to the neighborhood I was brought up in.

KING: You don't live in yesterday, then?

STARR: I don't. I live in today. I try not to live in tomorrow.

KING: Of course, you aren't sure it's going to be here. Ringo Starr, his 68th birthday, a special day. It's a day of peace and love. Your latest CD is "Liverpool 8," and it is probably -- not probably, it's definitely the most personal of your albums. Why did you do it?

STARR: You're a writer, I write with friends. People are talking about the actual title track, "Liverpool 8," which was about my life. The first verse, I was a sailor first; I was in the Merchant Navy. I worked in a factory and then I joined Rory Storm (ph) and that's when I went professional as a musician, and we played this holiday camp called Botlin's Holiday Camp, and then we went to Hamburg and we ended up in Shea.

It's like a mini autobiography. I think that's what people are getting to.

KING: I love the title song too. there was love all over the world today. Take a look. You're watching LARRY KING LIVE.

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KING: We're back with Ringo Starr on his 68th birthday, a special day of peace and love. He's in Chicago. Back in 1974, you did something called "The No No Song," about hard partying and living it up as a rock star. Do you have any regrets? STARR: No. You can't live in regrets. I don't do it now, that's my life now. "The No-No Song" was really a lot of fun, because when we were doing it, of course, we were all smoking spliffs and drinking and getting crazy. We were singing, "No, No, I don't do it no more." Now, I don't. I haven't done it for several years now and this is the result.

KING: Speaking of hard partying, what do you think of singer Amy Weinhouse, who has a great deal of talent but struggles with drug demons.

STARR: Yes, I don't know the pain that Amy is going through. But Amy is an incredible talent. You know, like me, like a lot of people in our business, you know, she might find a way out. That's all we can pray for.

KING: And hope for. As we've been saying, this is your 68th birthday. We have a few special greetings from people who want to join in on today's good wishes. Watch.

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA, SINGER: Happy birthday, Ringo. I wish you so much peace and love.

BROOKE WHITE, SINGER: Happy birthday, Ringo. Peace and love. Thank you.

CROWD: Happy birthday, Ringo.

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2ème partie

KING: The entire cast of Cirque du Soleil, who of course are featured in Love in Las Vegas, the hit show in Las Vegas. You've seen it a few times. Isn't that a great show.

STARR: It is a great show. I want to say to Christina Aguilera, peace and love. That was great, what a surprise. The peace and love show -- the love show in Vegas is great. You've seen it yourself. I have seen it twice. The music is incredible, and the show they put around that music is magnificent. What George Martin and Giles did remixing the Beatles tracks is incredible.

KING: You have been quoted as saying, if you're over 21, the music business is difficult.

STARR: Yes, I said that because I make a record and I can have it played on oldies but goldies. But trying to get actual, across the board air play is very difficult.

KING: Yes.

STARR: It's just how it is; 21 is an arbitrary number. If you're over 21, it's just difficult to get air play.

KING: How did you get to be a Beatle? STARR: I got it because I'm an incredible musician, and I knew the boys, and they gave me -- I was playing with Rory. They gave me a call and said, do you want to join the band. I said, sure. That's how it happened.

KING: Did you like that band right off?

STARR: No. I liked that band before I was in it. It was the only band I used to go and see in Liverpool. We became friends before that, before I joined. We were all playing in the same venues. Actually, Rory Storm and the Beatles played in Germany together. It wasn't like I was some stranger they called up.

KING: Did you like the other drummer?

STARR: The other drummer was the other drummer, you know. A lot of water has gone under the bridge. They for their reasons decided they wanted a change and I am the result.

KING: How fortunate for everyone. You and Paul McCartney are the two still alive. You were with us last year in Vegas in an extraordinary show. This may be difficult. What was it like to be a Beatle?

STARR: Well, it's difficult, because what was it like? I mean, it was incredible. It was hard, because when we started we were a club band and then it got bigger and bigger. Because we were four brothers together, we supported each other. But you cannot not say that it wasn't crazy days and reckless nights. That's what it was.

You know, in the end, you know, the one big image that we had, the whole floor of the plaza in New York and the four of us were hanging out in the bathroom trying to get away from the pressure.

KING: We'll be back with our remaining moments with Ringo Starr on the occasion of his 68th birthday and the theme of the day, peace and love. Don't go away.

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KING: We're back with Ringo Starr on tour. The 10th Ringo Star and his all stars tour. They're in Chicago, and it's his 68th birthday and it's a day of peace and love. Any chance of you and Paul getting together again?

STARR: Well, you know, he's played on my records. I've played on his. Going live is a totally different proposition. I mean, it's not in the near future. You know, he's out touring. I'm out touring. So we got things we got to do. We don't sit around saying we got to get together. Whatever you say, Larry, that sort of hints that we might get together is like big news and we're not even getting together. I said once in an interview, 50-50, and suddenly, you know, everyone is saying oh, that must mean they're getting together. We're not getting together. Peace and love, Paul. He understands me.

KING: What a night that would be. STARR: Yes.

KING: You can think of it, can't you?

STARR: I can think of it, yes. You know, if we do get together, we want you on drums.

KING: Do you still listen to the Beatles?

STARR: Yes, of course I do, some great tracks. My iPod is on shuffle. I have Beatle tracks in it. So they come up and, you know, the music is still, you know -- I love the music.

KING: You're not kidding. Did you have a favorite Beatle song other than the ones you wrote?

STARR: It's very difficult. I used to say "Rain," but there is "Day in The Life." There's "Drive My Car." I mean, there's too many tracks really. I've never been able to like say, that one, you know?

KING: Why or how do you explain their long lasting?

STARR: Because they were great songs and, you know, we were incredible musicians who gave those songs incredible life.

KING: When you were doing them, did you know they were great?

STARR: Well, we knew they were the best we could do. And we knew that was the best take. So we only did the best we could. And everyone talks about the latter days of the Beatles, where they are all fighting or arguing. But as soon as we heard the counting, we all gave everything that we had.

KING: Do you think the Beatles would be a success today?

STARR: Sure.

KING: Great music is great music.

STARR: Hey, I mean, the kids of today don't know us really, but they know the music. You know, they're still listening to it and saying wow! You talk to any new band, most of them have actually had a listen to what we did.

KING: Do you like a lot of what you hear today?

STARR: I like some of it, yes. You mentioned Amy, I loved Amy. But we have to wait for her to get herself together to do the next CD. You know, everyone complains it's all reality shows. Underneath all of that, because there is that -- underneath all of that, there's a lot of bands out there, you know, playing great music.

KING: Do you like country, do you like rock?

STARR: I like it all.

KING: Jazz?

STARR: No, no, I do. I like it all. It's such a broad band of music that I love. You know, everybody knows I love country. I did a country album. I've always loved rock, and I love the blues. You know, and I like pop and I like classical.

KING: Do you like that Tony Bennett? Did you like Sinatra?

STARR: I like Sinatra, yes. In those days, it was like a choice of Frank or Bing and I always went to Frank.

KING: All right, celebrity marriages. They hang on the rock today. You and your wife Barbara, 27 years in April. What's the secret?

STARR: The secret, Larry, is love and understanding and getting through the hard days, because for 27 years, you're going to have a bad day and you got to get through that.

KING: There were tough times then?

STARR: Oh, yes, yes. You cannot expect two human beings to go the 28 years we've been together without having an odd bad day. But the love underneath is still here. You know, I love Barbara. She loves me. And we're together.

KING: Anything you want to do, Ringo, you haven't done?

STARR: No, I'm sort of doing enough. It's good. And I'm privileged and blessed that I can do what I want to do, when I want to do it.

KING: And it's still -- when you're on that stage, hitting those drums and the band is going --

STARR: Love it.

KING: It's still the same kick?

STARR: Yes. It's a different band but it's still playing. I played with BB King, that was great. I played with a lot of other people too, and when it's on, it's on.

KING: What are you going to do for 69?

STARR: Well, I'm not talking to you. Could you stress my age enough, for Christ's sake? How old are you, 102?

KING: Seventy four. I'm 26.

STARR: Well done. OK, you're a little older than me.

KING: That's right. You're 24, I'm 26.

STARR: Yes, yes.

KING: Anything you want to do musically you haven't done?

STARR: No, I'm making music. I'm still making music, making records. I'm halfway through another CD for next year. I'm live on stage now for another 20 gigs, I think, we have left on this tour. So it's good. Life is good.

KING: It's always good having you around. Thanks, Ringo. Great seeing you.

STARR: Thank you, Larry, and thanks for the support and peace and love. Let me see you do it, peace and love.

KING: Peace and love. Happy 68 to Ringo Starr.

STARR: Happy 74th, Larry; 24 remember, mentally.

KING: Twenty six. Go to CNN.com/LarryKing.

cool !merci bien
elle date de quand ?

Paul McC a écrit:cool !merci bien
elle date de quand ?

Si j'ai bien compris le début de l'interview, le journaliste souhaite un bon anniversaire à Ringo donc l'interview doit sans doute dater du 7 juillet dernier?

ok !merci bien !

Je confirme elle date bien du 7 juillet dernier.