•"When the money first began to pour in, I'd go and buy ten suits, a dozen shirts, and three cars. I spent money like it had just been invented (Sunday Post, 11/9/69).

•May 60: Ringo was reluctant to give up his day job at Hunt's (to play at the Rock and Calypso Ballroom at Butlin's holiday camp in Wales for £25 a week)...But Ritchie was eventually persuaded by the prospect of extra money and the fact that Rory had promised to introduce a new "Starr Time" spotlight for his drummer (Porter, A. Before They Were Beatles, p. 96).

•"I found out John was married when we went to see an accountant about our tax and John started claiming for a dependent" (Tremlett, p. 46).

•Some members of Parliament were upset by the Beatles image and the fact that concerts required extra police staff. Ringo replied: "We're ratepayers too" (Clayson, p. 68).

•Peter Brown reports that it was George Harrison who finally contacted Ringo with the offer to join the Beatles. He reached Ringo by phone while Ringo was playing Butlin’s Holiday camp with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The terms were that he would be paid 25 pounds a week for a probationary period, and if things worked out he would be made a member (Brown, 86).

•In the early years, at least, the Beatles were in the 94% tax bracket (Brown, p. 110).

•In reference to early Skiffle: The performers were generally poor, without conventional instruments they sought out any common household object that could be blown, tapped,brushed or converted to make a series of note-like sounds (Porter, A. Before They Were Beatles, p. 17).

•Ringo in '63: "I never give it much thought, money. I always think of myself as having plenty".

•Even in those early days Ringo looked the complete professional onstage. From his neatly-combed beard to his well-manicured hands - one of his conquests did them for free - to the gold rings and the mandatory gold medallion swinging from his hairy chest. He was always immaculate (Leach. p. 81).

•Jealous girls from Liverpool caused Ringo's girlfriend (Maureen) to quit her job at Ashley du Pre because they would threaten her and generally make the job unpleasant for her (Clayson, p. 78).

Employment With The Beatles:

•Peter Eckhorn offered Ringo £30 a week to go back to Germany and play with Tony Sheridan and an apartment. Ringo eventually joins Rory Storm. John called him at Butlin's to offer £25 a week as a Beatle.

•Brian Epstein advised Ringo not to seek the £15 owed him by Rory at the time Ringo quit to join the Beatles.

•"Ringo was off to join the Beatles almost immediately after Lennon and McCartney had driven through a windy August night to bang on the trailer's door at 10am proffering a fiver more per week than Kingsize Taylor" (Clayson, p. 55).

•Port Sunlight Horticultural Society. After Show Dance. 6/- admission. Ringo's first engagement with the group (Lewisohn. Chronicle p. 75).

Employment Non-Beatles:

•Peter Eckhorn offered Ringo £30 a week to go back to Germany and play with Tony Sheridan and an apartment. Ringo eventually joins Rory Storm. John called him at Butlin's to offer £25 a week as a Beatle.

•Rory offered Ringo £25 for a sixteen-hour week. That was an ample wage for a young executive working nine to five.

•While Ringo was with Rory they were paid more than the Beatles; enough to lodge in the British Seaman's Mission-where lunch was something with chips and a cup of tea (Clayson, p. 38)

•After collapsing the stage (on purpose) at the Kaiserkeller the Hurricane's pay was reduced and the group (later to be reinstated) was dismissed for breach of contract.

•In late '61 or early '62 Ringo received an offer from Kingsize Taylor to drum for them at £20 per week.

•It is reported that Ringo quit (mid-week) owing Johnny Guitar rent on a trailer they'd rented for a short period while the two were banished from sleeping on the grounds of Butlin's where they were both performing at night (Clayson, p. 55).

Expenses:

•Ringo purchased his Ludwig set, a brown one with Swiss-made Paiste cymbals because he had once like Billy Fury's set (Clayson, p. 81).

•Tony Mansfield (former drummer with the Dakotas): I also bought a Ludwig kit in 1961 and Ritchie (Ringo) played on it a few times, especially when we toured together) and the next thing I know, Ritchie's got his own Ludwig set!

•Ringo bought a new set of gray/blue perloid Ludwig drums, after which the words "Beatles" are first painted on the bass drum in the now familiar stylistic characters (Schultheiss 44).