#i really need to post more i dont see enough ringo posts on my dash

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Ringo's Love of Jive Dancing

Playing skiffle with Eddie Clayton introduced a welcome way out from the street-corner existence Richy Starkey had known more than a year. It would take a long time to remove himself completely, but being with a group was an alternative to “walking” with the gang, and when he and Roy weren’t doing one or the other they were often dancing. Both were athletic and acrobatic jivers, accomplished rock and roll dancers able to flip, flop and fly their female partners, hold them up in the air and send them scooting through their legs.

Richy was a good jiver and so was I. We used to go to all the hops, to the Rialto and the Cavern, and girls liked to dance with us because we could do it. We had denim suits and denim jackets so the lads and girls in the Cavern called us “the Binmen.” We had regular jiving partners and loved it. But we were seriously threatened in the Rialto one night. Some feller got stabbed in the face with a pair of scissors and I was told, “You and your mate are next.” We were out of there like a shot. We didn’t like that at all. That was me and Richy—out the door.

—Tune In (Ch. 7, July 15–Dec 15, 1957)

A jukebox pumped out records when the Hurricanes took a break and [Ringo] was easily the best jiver in the group, never short of a dance partner. Margaret Douglas, on holiday here from Liverpool, says, “Ringo was a brilliant rock ’n’ roll dancer. He knew all the moves.”26

—Tune In (Ch. 15, May 31–Aug 15, 1960)

#i can find no photos of 50s richie jive dancing and that is a shame #but i love this quote and needed an aesthetic post to bring it alive #ringo starr #richard starkey #none really show the big jive moves #which are crazy and incredible and a good partner is worth their weight in gold #ringo #i cheated with the middle twirl thats just stock #the rest are all ringo #dancing bugs #mia farrow #cilla black #astrid kitcherr #ringo stories #ringo appreciation post #prebugs #reading tune in #i love all the young ringo details #i really need to post more i dont see enough ringo posts on my dash #underrated how dangerous those dance halls got #that john scissor story from hambug gets a lot of play but all he did is chop up a dress #the teds are gouging peoples eyes out with them at dances when someone eyes their girl wrong i mean yikes