RINGO STARR - STARR OFFERS 'PEACE AND LOVE' TO REGIS PHILBIN

LATEST: RINGO STARR has apologised to U.S. TV host REGIS PHILBIN after backing out of a performance on his morning show last week (22Jan08) - blaming the programme's producer for cutting his time slot. The former Beatle was scheduled to perform his new solo single Liverpool 8 on Good Morning With Regis And Kelly, but he mysteriously vanished from the schedule. It later emerged a producer had chopped Starr's allocation time, forcing him to edit a live performance of the song - which he wasn't prepared to do. Starr explains, "(It was) nothing to do with Regis, because we love Regis. Peace and love. His producer felt that he was going to give us limited time to play the song and we did the best we could. "And it still wasn't short enough for him. And the song has a story, so we wrote the song. We wanted to do the song. "And anyway, there was no - there's never - there was no compromise, so we had to leave."