

Starr, 41, arrived last in a red London cab with Miss Bach, 32, a top fashion model who played the seductive Russian major in the James Bond movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me.’ For both, it was the second marriage. Some 350 fans screamed and shouted - one even fainted - as the 15-member wedding party rolled up to London’s Marylebone registry office in a fleet of black taxi cabs. LONDON - In a Beatles reunion of sorts, the three surviving members of the famed group got together for the marriage of drummer Ringo Starr to svelte New York-born actress Barbara Bach. Roger Shine, one of Ringo’s witnesses, said of the reception, “It has been a Knees-Up Mother Brown, and lots of dancing with people playing spoons”.Īlso present besides family were Neil Aspinall and Derek Taylor (old Beatle and Apple colleagues) with their wives Sue and Joan, Elsie and Harry (Ringo’s mum and step-ladder), Oona and Harry Nilsson, make-up lady Barbara Daley and famous hair man Leonard.Ī memento of the event was taken away by each guest in the form of a solid silver star. The 70 guests then drove to a reception at the West End club Rags, where they toasted the couple with champagne and ate and danced the night away. The officiating registrar, Joseph Jevans, also married Paul and Linda in the same room in 1969.Ī large crowd of well-wishers who gathered outside the Register office were rewarded by seeing the bridal couple, Paul and Linda and their four children, and George and Olivia Harrison who also attended the ceremony.Īfterwards the couple posed for the society photographer Terry O’Neill, who flew in from New York for the occasion. The following year, she appeared in the war film Загін 10 з Наварон (1978), which also starred Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford.The marriage of Ringo to American actress Barbara Bach took place at London’s Marylebone Register Office on 27th April. Bach co-starred with two other "Bond Girls", Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery La tarantola dal ventre nero (1971) and had small roles in other Italian films. Her acting career began in Italy, where she played Nausicaa in Odissea (1968), a television adaptation of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", directed by Franco Rossi and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981. Ringo and Barbara went to New York City to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot.

Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of the comedy Caveman (1981), and they became a couple during the filming. The couple separated in 1978, sharing custody of their two children. In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California. During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition. They had two children, Francesca Gregorini and Gianni Gregorini.

Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him and they married in 1968. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for business tourism in 1966. Barbara Goldbach was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York.
