Ringo Starr's wife, Barbara Bach, is one of the most famous Bond girls of all time. Ringo once discussed how he fell in love with Bach.
The Beatles and James Bond Debut on the Same Day In terms of British cultural exports, there may not be a more significant day than Oct. 5, 1962. That's when the Beatles' debut single, "Love Me Do," and the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, were released.
Ringo Starr‘s wife, Barbara Bach, is one of the most famous Bond girls of all time. She was not a big fan of The Beatles. She said her two favorite musicians were Aretha Franklin and a pair of American soul singers, Cheatsheet reports.
Back was no Beatlemaniac. “You see, I really knew very little about The Beatles,” he explained. “I didn’t follow them. My favorite musicians were Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, but music just wasn’t my thing.”
Bach is an actress most known for her role as agent Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore. The character is one of the most interesting leading ladies in the 007 franchise, partly because she starts the film as Bond’s enemy. She also appeared in Caveman, a notorious comedy starring Ringo that features a lot of slapstick and little intelligible dialogue.
Ringo was born with the name Richard Starkey. During a 1981 interview with Rolling Stone, Bach seemed to prefer his original name. “To me, Ringo is definitely Richie,” she said. “Ringo is the public figure, and Richie is the man I live with.”
Ringo discussed falling in love with Bach. “Last spring, we were on the Caveman set in Mexico for two and a half months just as friends,” he recalled. “Then suddenly one Sunday evening — flashes of light! It clicked, and we’ve been together ever since.”
Ringo had a lot to say about the film that brought him and Bach together. “Caveman is my first leading role,” he continued. “I haven’t been in a movie in years, cause I’d had enough of just coming on a set for two or three days, doing vignettes like the ones in Lisztomania and Sextette. So I really enjoyed the chance to go from a weird weakling to the king of the castle in Caveman. I’m the hero, you know. And believe it or not, it’s a family movie.”
“When people ask me about the Beatles, I often tell them, `You better ask Paul,’ Ringo says, because somehow he seems to remember everything,” he said. “But along with great projects like Get Back, seeing so many of these amazing Beatles images has really brought back those days to me, and all the love and friendship that we four shared back then. So this is a book full of Beatle images that many people haven’t seen and stories that I’m sharing with a little help from my longtime writer friend David Wild. We’ve all been through a pretty tough time for a lot of people who’ve been locked down, and this book has really lifted my spirits and took me back to where I once belonged in a whole new way. And in the end, that’s why this new book is called Lifted. The Beatles changed my life forever. So it’s about getting back and giving back.”