One of the long time readers of this blog is Luis from Mexico. Luis has emailed me from time to time over years and has shared some photos that the took of Ringo when he was last in Mexico. So a little while back when Luis emailed me and said that Ringo was returning to his country and he and his wife were going to try to meet the man, I wished him luck. However, I did not think it would really happen. Well let me saw officially that I have never been happier to have been proven wrong! Congratulations to Luis and his lovely wife for meeting Richy himself backstage on November 14, 2013!!
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Ringo open the door of his dressing room and told us to come in. He had to repeated it twice. Once we had entered, he closed the door. We (Ringo and me) shook hands and he hugged my wife and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
The first thing I told him was" Ringo it took me 40 years to get to you, it's very hard to get to you" He said "I know I know" then the standard chat, how much we like his and his fellows music and how great it was to be with him.
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I was in the right place at the right time after so many hours going from here to there, out of hotels and backstage and it paid off.
It was, as the picture "says"November 14th 2013 at his dressing room(very big dressing room) before the concert. at national auditorium in Mexico City. We were with him for almost 12 minutes. Just we 3 and nobody else. Just a guy (who I think is his secretary or assistant?) came in to take 2 pictures.One of the pics turned out blurry.
Ringo open the door of his dressing room and told us to come in. He had to repeated it twice. Once we had entered, he closed the door. We (Ringo and me) shook hands and he hugged my wife and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
The first thing I told him was" Ringo it took me 40 years to get to you, it's very hard to get to you" He said "I know I know" then the standard chat, how much we like his and his fellows music and how great it was to be with him.
Then while I looked for a pen(you know what for) my wife told him she is from Nicaragua. He told us he has never been there, but he'd like to.I explained him that there's no concert industry in Nicaragua and he told us he was in Peru last week and he had a great time.
By this time I had the pen in my hand with good night vienna lp waiting in my other hand. I told him, "Ringo I know you don't sign anymore but can you sign my record?" he answered " No sorry I don't sign anymore, just for charity" I told him"I don't going to sell it on ebay, I'm a real fan, I have a theory about people selling your signs in ebay, they're radio people and press guys who are not real fans and is easy for them to get to you and don't appreciate it" he told me " I know that's why I don't sign in press conference anymore"
At this moment his secretary or assistant came in and I asked him to take our picture and Ringo said "yeah your picture". The secretary or assistant took 1 picture and Ringo says "another one", The secretary or assistant gave me the camera back and I said "let me check the picture" Ringo said "yeah if it's not ok you can have it taken again" we looked at them and Ringo said "very good takes" at first sight they looked good but when I got home and put them in my pc, 1 turned out blurry. The guy left and then we thanked Ringo and say goodbye we(Ringo and me) shook hands again and my wife told him" you're a very good person" he hugged my wife and kiss her on her cheek again and we left.
We saw the guy who took the picture outside and thanked him too.
We went to our seats later I asked my wife " why did we leave the dressing room? nobody asked us to leave" Well maybe we felt it was the right time to leave. We knew there was another couple waiting to see him because we saw them waiting back of us before we entered the dressing room.