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The Beatles' Ringo Starr drums up a new job

27 August, 2015 - 0 Comments

It’S been called his finest moment since his work with Thomas The Tank Engine. Ringo Starr is back in the nation’s living rooms as the star of a new advertising campaign for… comfortable shoes. “Rock out in comfort” may be the kind of tagline that would have horrified the four lads who stormed the Cavern Club in 1960s Liverpool but at 75 it seems the former Beatle is perfectly happy endorsing a gentler kind of existence.

In the commercials for Skechers shoes Ringo is back behind his drum kit, hammering out a beat, before watching a young pretender attempt the same. After the final flourish the old master shakes his head. “Well,” he says in that famous Scouse drawl, “at least you got the shoes right, brother.”

As adverts go it’s actually rather good. Ringo looks great: fit, handsome and still retaining that deadpan charm that always made him the funniest and most likeable of the Fab Four. And Skechers are clearly delighted. “We are incredibly excited to be working with such an amazing world-renowned artist as Ringo Starr,” the company’s president Michael Greenberg said in a statement. “Ringo possesses charm, charisma and global recognition.”

The man himself also insists that he’s more of a “comfortable shoes” kind of guy these days than the hell-raising rock ’n’ roller who went so famously off the rails after The Beatles’ break-up. “I love to be relaxed,” Ringo says. “I don’t know why people think because you’re a well-known pop star that we relax differently. We don’t.

By: Dominic Utton

Source: The Express

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