Former Beatle drummer Ringo Starr has admitted to be leading of more spiritual life.

The world’s most famous drummer has recently revealed during a recent interview that he had lost his way at a younger age, particularly when he was part of the Beatles and during the aftermath of the band’s break-up.

The reformed rock legend said he had experimented with drugs including LSD and marijuana during the 1960s when he was part of the Beatles. Although this information surprises no one as the use of these substances started to become very popular amongst youngsters and artists in that period, Ringo’s subsequent descent into dependency of alcohol and cocaine was much less publicized.

The Los Angeles Times article reveals that the sixty-nine-year-old performer consumes no alcohol and has managed to put an end to a 60-a-day cigarette habit.

Ringo now says that religion has taken a huge role in his life.

He told the newspaper at a Los Angeles Grammy Museum event in “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.”

He added that God is in his life and he now believes he had been searching for that element ever since the sixties.

He said “I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way [back] onto it, thank God.”

Ringo, a vegetarian, has been married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach since 1981.

Meanwhile, impresario Alan McGee has said that musicians such as Sir Paul McCartney need to retire at 40.
 
Credited for having contributed to the development of so-called “Cool Britannia” and was at one time manager for well known bands such as bands as Oasis and Primal Scream, McGee said that all rock stars should stop their antics at 40.

McGesaid “Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost.”

He particularly singled out McCartney by saying the former Beatle “should retire. John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak.”