The Fab Four had a phew issues long before they parted company...
Drummer Ringo Starr has told how the pop legends used to accuse each other of passing wind while they performed together.
Ringo let rip – verbally – about it after being shown a clip from Peter Jackson’s Apple TV documentary Let It Be.
Back in 1969 Ringo, now 81, is shown admitting that he had let one fly in a band meeting.
After watching his confession replayed on American TV, Ringo confided: “We learned that when we were in a band, when we started out, if anybody let a silent one go, they would try and get away with it.”
Ringo recalled: “It caused terrible trouble. (Each of us would say) ‘it wasn’t me – it was you!’ It came to blows”.
Laughing telly host Jimmy Kimmel joked: “So it was not Yoko divided the band. It was just gas?”, Ringo responded: “No it was farts.”
He added that the pals would finally own up who had been responsible and Let It Be, explaining: “You just said it and everything calmed down.”
Asked who had been the gassiest Beatle, Ringo chuckled and said diplomatically: “Paul....I have got to say that because the other two are not with us.”
