UPDATED: OCTOBER 2009
The Beatles Book Monthly: His keen interest in imaginative cine-photography led him to make a twenty-minute colour film which focused on one of Maureen's eyes - he used to say her eyes had hypnotic power and were one of his wife's most compelling attractive features.
Isaac Tigrett: "She's the sweetest woman on the planet"
Paul McCartney: "Maureen was a beautiful girl, a real sweetheart."
Sixties teen magazine: "Ringo relies on her a great deal - and she's prepared, in her quiet, competent, shy way, to be just the wife of a Beatle... with no special fanfares or publicity for the girl who was Maureen Cox"
Richard Starkey: "She's just sort of ordinary, she's from Liverpool. And the genuine fans wrote in saying, you know, 'if you are going with her, good luck and I hope you're happy.' "
Beatles fans at Shea Stadium interviewed in the midst of Beatles induced hysteria:
"Why are you crying honey?" "I love the Beatles." "How about you?" "I love em." "Which one?" "Ringo." "He's a married man, don't you care if he's married?" "Oh I love Maureen she's sweet."
Richard Starkey: "Three years ago I started working again after a long break, and the whole family, including Maureen, came to the gigs... We're like that. We go as a family to support the family. Even though we're divorced, me and Maureen still share the joy of being part of the same family."
Isaac Tigrett: "my greatest piece of rock memorabilia."
Isaac Tigrett's business associate Lyons: "Maureen is a pillar of strength. She comes from a working class background, Liverpool, and I think she keeps Isaac down-to-earth."
John Lennon, 1971: "Maureen is a fantastic artist in her own right as well,... apart from bringing up all that tribe of Ringo’s she also is an artist, y’know?"
Cynthia Lennon, 1995: "We've shared life's ups and downs, with and after the Beatles. I was with her when John died...but Maureen did not live in the shadow of the Beatles"
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