Ringo Starr celebrates his 83rd birthday this Friday, and, as he has done every July 7th since 2008, he is asking everyone to say, think or post “Peace & Love” at noon their time. Here is
And, in a new video encouraging everyone’s participation, he says it “helps the planet. Peace & Love helps you, me, the world, the planet. And the new planets we’re going to.”
And as for number-83, he tells People, “Nothing makes me feel old. In my head, I’m 27. Wisdom’s a heavy word. [Getting older] is what happens, and you try and keep yourself busy.”
Ringo will gather in Beverly Hills, California at Beverly Hills Garden Park, home to his Peace and Love statue with his brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers‘ guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench, and All Starr Band members and alumnus Edgar Winter, Sheila E, Richard Marx, Jim Keltner and many others.
NASA will transmit a pre-recorded message from Ringo into the universe at noon PT from NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in Barstow, California.
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