Ringo Starr has always been an individual to spread kindness and compliment someone where a compliment is due. He’s not too cool and seemingly isn’t too competitive. Hence, when he recognizes talent, he’s going to say something about it. Starr has done so a plethora of times, although one of the most profound and prominent ones is when he praised the late great Kurt Cobain.
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Since Kurt Cobain’s passing in 1994, the man has been turned into a pop culture god. Consequently, the compliments and praises his legacy receives have arguably come off as a bit trite, cliché, and, holistically, somewhat disingenuous from some. However, Ringo Starr paid his respects to the man in 2019 during a Rolling Stone interview. And he did so in a fashion that was truly unique and entirely genuine.
Ringo Starr’s Heartfelt Comments Towards Kurt Cobain
Most compliments that fans and contemporaries have given Kurt Cobain have come out of a place of kindness and admiration. However, those compliments can sometimes come across as redundant. And consequently, they turn into just another kind phrase. Ringo Starr went above and beyond this trend with his comments, as he put Kurt Cobain on a pedestal that nobody else has seemingly ever placed him on.
“Absolutely great, and the man himself [Kurt Cobain] had so much emotion,” Ringo Starr said in the interview. “That’s what I loved. I’m an emotional guy. […] No one can doubt Nirvana, ever. And who knew he’d end up where he ended up? I don’t think anyone who listened to music with any courage could doubt him, ’cause he was courageous.”
Concering Cobain’s early demise, Starr tragically dwelled on the “27 Club” phenomenon that has plagued the music industry for years.
“I don’t know the end story, and it’s not about him, and we lose a lot of people in our business early,” Starr said regarding the tragic trend. “A lot of them went by 27, like it’s that number, what, had they got it all in by then? Or maybe that’s just the way God planned it; I don’t know.”
Ringo Starr poses an interesting question worthy of answering. Regardless, Starr knew that Cobain had something special and hit it right on the nose with his kind superlatives. Ringo Starr might have said everyone was already thinking, though, given that it came from him, it makes all the difference.
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