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    Sir Ringo Starr got so stoned with Bob Dylan, he forgot he'd ordered food

    The 84-year-old drummer's Beatles bandmate Sir Paul McCartney previously told how the first time the group tried marijuana was with the folk legend, and after being quizzed about the experience, Ringo admitted he "loved" it, but got a pleasant surprise when the room service they had ordered suddenly appeared because the drug had made them all "a little hungry"


    Asked on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' if it was true he'd smoked weed with Dylan, Ringo said: "Yeah. He didn't personally hand it to me. He had a friend of his in the room who actually handed it to me."

    And asked if he loved the experience, he added: "Loved it. And after we'd sat round in that room smoking dope, I came out that room into the living room of the hotel and we'd forgotten we'd ordered room service.

    "And so this guy came in wheeling in a couple of trolleys for the four of us and it was like, 'Oh okay!' because it makes you a little hungry."

    But two things that won't have been on the menu that night were pizza and curry because Ringo admitted he has "never" tried either because of his food allergies.

    He said: "I've never had a pizza or a curry.

    "I'm allergic to several items and pizza... you never know what they're putting in it half the time or the curry.

    So I'm pretty strict with myself because it makes me ill immediately."

    Paul previously told how Ringo was the first to smoke marijuana while he and late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison were being "good lads" but his reaction made them all want to try it too.

    Speaking to Uncut magazine, Paul recalled: "I'm not sure whether he's very keen on me telling this, but here we go.

    "It was at the Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue and 59th in New York City in August 1964.

    "We were in a hotel room, all being good lads having our Scotch and coke - it was an after-party I think.

    "Dylan arrived and he went into the bedroom with his roadie. Ringo went along to see what was up.

    "So he finds Dylan rolling up and he has a toke. He came back in and we said, 'What was it like?'

    "So Ringo says, 'The ceiling is kind of moving down...' We all ran into the backroom going, 'Give us a bit, give us a bit!'

    "So that was the very first evening we ever got stoned."

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