@ This file written with the Avid Caption plugin, version 1 00:00:39:19 00:00:42:16 I went to school here in Ferreira. 00:00:42:16 00:00:46:12 My parents worked in the fields. So did I. 00:00:46:12 00:00:48:13 My parents had cattle... 00:00:48:13 00:00:50:13 Everyone worked hard. 00:00:50:13 00:00:52:15 You had to work to eat. 00:00:52:15 00:00:55:11 There was nothing, no supermarkets... 00:00:55:11 00:01:00:13 There were only houses with a little corner store. 00:01:03:19 00:01:06:12 But Ferreira's not the same. 00:01:06:12 00:01:08:06 There was nothing, it was a one-horse town. 00:01:10:21 00:01:13:11 -Get yourself looking nice. -I am. Look how nice I look. 00:01:13:11 00:01:14:23 Like every day. 00:01:24:11 00:01:27:02 I was a child. I married when I was 19. 00:01:27:02 00:01:30:08 I went... I wasn't 20 yet. 00:01:30:08 00:01:32:12 I left my parents... 00:01:33:00 00:01:34:18 and we went to England. 00:01:34:18 00:01:36:20 We were there for 12 years. 00:01:36:20 00:01:39:22 I worked for millionaires. 00:01:39:22 00:01:42:01 The first house was in Scotland. 00:01:42:01 00:01:44:13 It was near Scotland. 00:01:44:13 00:01:47:04 There were only cows and trees. 00:01:47:04 00:01:50:20 But they were very rich folks. 00:01:50:20 00:01:54:04 Then we came to London, with some Greeks. 00:01:54:20 00:01:56:14 It was good for us there. 00:01:56:14 00:02:01:17 I lived in a place called... Victoria Street. 00:02:01:17 00:02:05:13 I'd go on foot to Victoria Station. 00:02:05:13 00:02:09:21 The buses were all there, the underground... 00:02:10:15 00:02:12:10 Then I went to the agency to see if there was 00:02:12:10 00:02:16:11 4 or 5 hours work. 00:02:16:15 00:02:22:03 Not an agency, it was the Apple Company where he worked. 00:02:22:03 00:02:24:21 They called it Apple... 00:02:24:21 00:02:28:02 On the records, on the back, was a picture of half an apple. 00:02:28:02 00:02:32:20 The day I went for the interview, he told me they were in bed, 00:02:32:20 00:02:37:20 that they were important people and very good people. 00:02:39:13 00:02:44:02 He lived in London, outside London, at... 00:02:49:07 00:02:52:01 number 8, I'll always remember that. 00:02:52:01 00:02:54:23 He told me: "From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 00:02:54:23 00:02:58:02 You have to do the whole house. 00:02:58:02 00:03:03:15 First you wash the buckets of the cats and dogs". 00:03:03:15 00:03:07:11 He got there around 11... 00:03:08:04 00:03:10:14 -Good Morning! -Good Morning. 00:03:10:14 00:03:14:13 I saw him... Nobody told me exactly who he was, 00:03:14:13 00:03:17:00 just that he was important and to be "very careful"... 00:03:17:00 00:03:22:10 The painter went by and said to me, "Don't you know who they are?" 00:03:22:10 00:03:24:19 "Isn't he one of the Beatles?" I didn't know his name. 00:03:24:19 00:03:26:02 Ringo. 00:03:26:02 00:03:27:15 Bloody Nora! 00:03:28:14 00:03:32:00 -You didn't know? -No! What a surprise. 00:03:32:15 00:03:35:20 Ringo would come along in his boots. 00:03:35:20 00:03:38:24 Hello, Maria. Good morning! 00:03:39:17 00:03:42:14 Ringo was very serious but a very good boy. 00:03:42:14 00:03:46:11 His wife, his ex, he's with Barbara now... 00:03:46:11 00:03:49:05 She was great, we were like sisters. 00:03:50:03 00:03:54:04 They had a fellow, a chauffeur and secretary. He was charming. 00:03:54:04 00:03:58:17 He said, "Maria, I'm going to take your photos with Ringo's car". 00:03:58:17 00:04:01:03 Then I met his parents... 00:04:01:03 00:04:05:14 The mother, the father wasn't his real father. 00:04:05:14 00:04:07:24 The mother had remarried. 00:04:07:24 00:04:11:09 "I know Coruña and Ferrol really well... 00:04:11:09 00:04:14:08 because I worked on a ship". 00:04:14:22 00:04:17:03 My English? Terrible. 00:04:17:23 00:04:19:14 Really terrible! 00:04:19:14 00:04:22:11 It was all signs. 00:04:23:11 00:04:25:04 They never opened the door. 00:04:25:04 00:04:29:07 I'd open the door and say "Ringo's not in". 00:04:29:07 00:04:32:21 "But you're Spanish! We're Spanish too". 00:04:32:21 00:04:34:14 I felt bad about that. 00:04:34:14 00:04:36:23 "Come another time and see if they're in". 00:04:36:23 00:04:39:21 He said to me: "Good". 00:04:39:21 00:04:42:11 Paul came the most. 00:04:43:00 00:04:47:17 The one I didn't see much... once, I think... 00:04:47:17 00:04:52:11 The one who went to America. He died there. What was his name? 00:04:52:11 00:04:54:16 John... John Lennon. 00:04:54:16 00:04:57:21 I saw him less. I saw the others a lot. 00:04:59:03 00:05:04:00 We had a great time in London. The house I most remember... 00:05:04:00 00:05:07:12 I'd like them to know that, it's Ringo and Maureen's. 00:05:07:12 00:05:10:05 Because we lived as a family. 00:05:20:01 00:05:23:12 Then we decided to go to Spain. 00:05:23:12 00:05:28:07 "We're not going to get rich working here". 00:05:28:07 00:05:34:13 Being pregnant, I had to come because I couldn't work there. 00:05:46:11 00:05:52:07 But sure, you come here and it's another life. You have your kids... 00:05:52:07 00:05:56:20 I came to my home, though it was only half-finished. 00:05:56:20 00:06:03:06 Now there's... If it were now, maybe I wouldn't... 00:06:03:06 00:06:09:14 I remember them a lot. I saw him talking on TV little while ago. 00:06:09:14 00:06:12:17 "Come here, come here, Ringo's on". 00:06:14:15 00:06:19:11 I never forgot him. I never went back, but I really must. 00:06:19:11 00:06:24:18 I must go and press the doorbell, whoever answers the door. 00:06:32:08 00:06:34:09 That's the bread man, but my husband'll get it. 00:06:35:00 00:06:36:06 Is Granddad there? 00:06:37:15 00:06:39:11 Are you going on TV, Aurelia? 00:06:39:11 00:06:43:18 -Yes, come here, you'll be on it too. -I'm not ready. 00:06:43:18 00:06:46:18 You're not ready? But you were in London for years. 00:06:46:18 00:06:50:08 -That's true. -You can talk to them in English. 00:06:50:08 00:06:53:07 -You were with the Beatles? -With Ringo Starr. 00:06:53:07 00:06:57:02 -Ringo Starr? -Yes, and Paul McCartney. 00:06:57:17 00:06:59:01 But I didn't work for Paul. 00:06:59:01 00:07:01:01 -You didn't tell me. -I didn't tell you? 00:07:01:01 00:07:05:21 -The whole town knows, woman. -Not me. 00:07:05:21 00:07:09:20 -It's odd your parents don't know. -No. 00:07:09:20 00:07:12:12 I always told them, "I was with Ringo".