Britain's Daily Mail (www.dailymail.co.uk) is reporting that former Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr has found God at nearly 70 years of age.

Ringo Starr today

This was revealed in a story written by Ben Todd who said, "John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

"Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things.

"The drummer says he has found God - after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment."

Todd said that Liverpool-born Starr admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s.

"But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life," said Todd.

He reported that Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: "I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

"For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s.

"I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto

The Beatles

it, thank God."

Starr was speaking at an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Todd went on to say that it was in 1966 that his late bandmate John Lennon announced that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.

In an interview with the London Evening Standard, Lennon - who was murdered in 1980 - said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that. I'm right and I will be proved right.

"We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity-Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

Todd said that when a U.S. magazine reprinted some of the interview, protests broke out in the States and Beatles records were publicly burned. The protests then spread to other countries, including Mexico, South Africa and Spain.

In his latest interview Starr - a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco - also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July.

Written and used with permission by Dan Wooding and ASSIST News Service.

Britain's Daily Mail (www.dailymail.co.uk) is reporting that former Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr has found God at nearly 70 years of age.

Ringo Starr today

This was revealed in a story written by Ben Todd who said, "John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.

"Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things.

"The drummer says he has found God - after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment."

Todd said that Liverpool-born Starr admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s.

"But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life," said Todd.

He reported that Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: "I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

"For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s.

"I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto

The Beatles

it, thank God."

Starr was speaking at an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Todd went on to say that it was in 1966 that his late bandmate John Lennon announced that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.

In an interview with the London Evening Standard, Lennon - who was murdered in 1980 - said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that. I'm right and I will be proved right.

"We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity-Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

Todd said that when a U.S. magazine reprinted some of the interview, protests broke out in the States and Beatles records were publicly burned. The protests then spread to other countries, including Mexico, South Africa and Spain.

In his latest interview Starr - a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco - also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July.

Written and used with permission by Dan Wooding and ASSIST News Service.