BBC: Ringo 'too busy' for autographs (other details) (BBC News ^ | Monday, 13 October 2008)
Starr, who released his most recent album Liverpool 8 in January, recently completed a tour of the US and Canada.The musician currently divides his time between Los Angeles, the South of France and his UK home in Surrey.
In April, a foliage sculpture of Starr outside a railway station in Liverpool was beheaded by vandals.
The performer had reportedly angered some locals when he told the BBC's Jonathan Ross he missed nothing about the city.