Ringo Starr has said that "the Beatles music will one day be downloading", referring to plans to finally make the Beatles catalogue available via legitimate digital music stores (all but a handful of Beatles tracks are not currently available to legit download platforms - though the whole catalogue circulates on illegal P2P networks of course).
Starr's comments follow indications earlier this year from Neil Aspinall, the head of Beatles company Apple Corps, who said that plans were in the pipeline to make Beatles songs available digitally. However, neither Aspinall nor Starr have given any real indication on the timescales involved in launching Beatles downloads, though neither seemed to imply any launch is imminent.
Starr has also been speaking about his former band mate's high profile marriage breakdown. Starr told the Toronto Sun that: "I talked to him [Paul McCartney] three weeks ago and I just said, 'I'm here if you need me.' That's all you can be". On the media coverage of the McCartney/Mills break up, Starr continued: "The British press are relentless. You would like them to stay out, but I'm afraid if you want them [initially], then they're going to stay in. I talk to Barbara [Ringo's wife Barbara Bach] in England every day and it's getting ugly".