As The Beatles line up ready to stride across that zebra crossing in Abbey Road for their iconic album cover, Ringo and Paul lark about, John and George look detached, and all four know the fairytale is about to end.
Eight months later, in a Daily Mirror scoop on April 10, 1970, Paul delivered the news millions of fans had dreaded when he made it clear that the Fab Four were finished.
And Ringo, who turned 80 yesterday, was the one who suffered the most from the break-up. His solo career never took off and he turned to booze and cocaine to beat boredom and depression.
By the mid-1980s he was downing a bottle of Mumm champagne for breakfast and getting through 16 bottles of wine a day. He said: “I’ve got photographs of me playing all over
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