В Ливеппуле собираются сносить отчий дом Ринго

While Ringo Starr is certainly used to being given short shrift by now -- after all, the guy was reduced to playing second fiddle to a talking train while watching his old bandmates be canonized one by one -- things are on the verge of going too far. It seems that the city of Liverpool is looking to gentrify the area in which the dopey Beatle spent his childhood and wants to tear down the home where he struck his first snare. Britain's National Trust thought enough of native sons John Lennon and Paul McCartney to restore their childhood homes for use as historical museums, but a spokeswoman says that doing the same for Ringo "is not something we would consider." Maybe something like the Stu Sutcliffe memorial bus shelter would be in order . . .
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