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Ringo Starr ‘Panicking’ Over Recent Illness and Tour Cancellation: ‘Mortality Is Inching Closer’


Health nut Ringo Starr is taking time off from his tour for a cold, which a source exclusively tells Closer has got the drummer worried about his future.

Ringo Starr has always been a health nut, but even his obsessive rituals for clean and environmentally conscious living are no longer doing everything they did as he advances in years, a source exclusively tells Closer. Keystone/Getty ImagesHowever, this latest scare has the star and his camp worried, especially considering this wasn’t the first time Ringo had been forced to cancel performances due to health issues. Ringo, who had been considered one of music’s heaviest partiers in the 1970s and 1980s, is now all about maintaining his health, which the source says is helping him deal with the anxiety, but won’t be a panacea for old age.

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