The Beatles drummer continued: “Things come around and you think what a great time and you think of days and things [that] happened. “I always say I'm an only child and suddenly I had three brothers and we were really close. We were sort of psychic in the end.”

Was Ringo and George friends?

George was really on my mind then.” In a 2003 interview, Starr said that following The Beatles breaking up, he had remained closest friends with George and that for him the song perfectly summed up “how I miss him in my heart and in music”.

Did Ringo and George spoon each other?

I talked to Paul, then John, until they came round to the idea.” Ringo says he and George used to spoon in bed. ... George and Ringo shared a flat together long after John and Paul moved into their own homes.