Ringo Starr talks about some of his favorite photos of The Beatles

nypost.com:

endlessly youthful Ringo Starr spent time doing what a lot of us did: Cruising the Internet, looking at old photos, finding cool stuff, reevaluating life.

But, of course, as the Beatles’ former drummer, cool stuff hit him a little differently than it might have the rest of us. In particular: pictures of him with his old band.

Ringo plucked some favorite shots and collected them for a new book called “Lifted: Fab Images and Memories of My Life with the Beatles from Across the Universe,” out Monday.“Fabulous images of my Beatles days … have retained the magical and mysterious power to bring me back to those times and memories,” he writes. “Somehow seeing them helped me get back to seeing my life with the Fab Four through fresh and loving eyes.”According to David Wild, who co-authored “Lifted,” it went beyond that: Ringo chose photos that touched his heart.

Wild, who went through the images with Ringo, told The Post. “The pictures in this book represent an emotional sense of what the Beatles mean in his life.”As to how it feels to have once been a Beatle, Ringo writes, “Sort of like being pope or president, only probably a lot more fun.”Ringo figures that this shot captures the Beatles performing at the Cavern, a Liverpool nightclub where the up-and-coming group made their bones. “John is giving me a look here,” he writes.