They had three children Zak (13 September 1965) Jason (19 August 1967) Lee (17 November 1970) The couple divorced in 1975 In 1980, he met actress Barbara Bach ("Bond girl") They were married on 27 April 1981 Ringo Starr is vegetarian because of stomach problems he had in the past He was lefthanded until he became ambidextrous (mõlemakäeline) His son, Zak Starkey, is a prolific drummer, who until August 2008 was a semiofficial member and drummer in Oasis-- one of the many bands influenced by The Beatles. "Open, guileless (siiras), disarming (lepitav), Ringo Starr will be one of those fortunate people who will be popular at whatever he does." Lewis Lister in Rave magazine (1969)
The fact that Holmes limited himself to already recovered letters in his "Come here at once" message to Slaney suggests that he did not discover any regularity which would have permitted him slightly more latitude in composing that message. And surely had there been such a key pattern, Holmes would have discovered it. The inventor of the cipher, Elsie's father, Patrick, "the boss of the Joint," may have gotten the idea for the dancing men from a cipher based on human figures in the semiofficial Manual of Signals by Albert Myers, the founder of the "U.S. Army Signal Corps, or from the same unknown place as the inventor of a slightly later United States patent that uses manikins for cipher symbols, or from the ubiquitous Carbonari, whose call-sign is made by extending the arms horizontally in the form of a cross and the reply by pressing two fists one above the other on the breast. Holmes may well have known of these possible sources