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<\/p>\nBarbara Bach, who played Bond girl Triple X, wasn\u2019t needing to be rescued from the spy who loved her.<\/p>\n
Instead she was looking for her knight in shining armor \u2013 her rocker husband, Sir Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n
Now 75, Bach, an actor and model, was at the pinnacle of her career with her appearance in 1977\u2019s The Spy Who Loved Me, where she played the love interest, and potential adversary, to the womanizing 007 agent, James Bond played by Roger Moore.<\/p>\n
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According to a 1983 story in People, Bach referred to Bond as \u201ca chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moore agreed and in 1973, the year he starred in his first Bond film, Live and Let Die, he said in an interview with People, \u201cBond, like myself, is a male chauvinist pig. All my life I\u2019ve been trying to get women out of brassieres and pants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to filming The Spy Who Loved Me, Bach had roles in Italian films, one with other Bond Girls\u2013Claudine Auger from Thunderball (1965) and Barbara Bouchet from Casino Royale (1967)\u2013 in Black Belly of the Tarantula, a 1971 Italian murder-mystery.<\/p>\n
Bach\u2019s starring performance as a Bond girl made the brown-haired beauty an all-time favorite and paved her acting career with gold.<\/p>\n
After playing Major Anya Amasova, the fictional character part of the KGB, she had leading roles in Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy, a 1980 film directed by Robert Downey Sr, and in Caveman, a 1981 slapstick comedy where she co-starred with Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and Ringo Starr, now 82.<\/p>\n
Starr plays Neanderthal lusting after Lana, played by Bach, but in the end, he dumps her and choses another mate.<\/p>\n
The screenplay in no way reflects what happened in real life.<\/p>\n
The pair saw each other at the Los Angeles airport, flying to the set of Caveman, which was filmed in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Featured in a 1981 Playboy pictorial (per People), Bach said, \u201cA lot of garbage has been written about us, none of it interesting,\u201d she said. \u201cThe truth is, we weren\u2019t together until the very end of Caveman. Working, we got along fine, but we each had other people, our respective friends. Then, all of a sudden, within a week\u2013the last week of shooting\u2013it just happened. We changed from friendly love to being in love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking with the Irish Examiner in 2021, The Beatles superstar gushed over his wife, whom he married more than four decades ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the woman. I loved her from when I first saw her at LAX in 1980. She was at the airport with a boyfriend and I was at the airport checking in, and we happened to be going to Mexico to do the same movie. And that\u2019s how it happened,\u201d Star recalled. \u201cI\u2019m blessed she\u2019s in my life, that\u2019s all I can ever say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starr, of supernova stardom, is the drummer for the most influential band of all time, The Beatles. And Bach was in the audience for a Beatles show at New York\u2019s Shea Stadium in 1965, where as part of the Fab Four, he played alongside the late John Lennon and George Harrison, and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n
Bach admits that though she was there, she wasn\u2019t the biggest Beatles fan. She was there with her friend Joe Walsh and her sister Marjorie, who was so wild about the band that she showed up wearing a Beatles wig.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sister Marjorie was crazy about the Beatles,\u201d Bach told People in a 1981 interview. \u201cI liked [Bob] Dylan, Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marjorie went on and married Walsh, who became the Eagles guitarist in 1975. Walsh also played with his brother-in-law in Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, a live rock supergroup.<\/p>\n
Only months after Lennon was killed, Bach and Starr married April 27, 1981 with a guest that included McCartney and Harrison.<\/p>\n
When the adorable couple celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2021, Starr posted a photo from their wedding day\u2013McCartney and Harrison are also in the image\u2013with the captioned, \u201cIt was 40 years ago today The love of my life said yes yes yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s love spreads beyond their blended family\u2013Starr has three kids with late wife Maureen Cox and Bach has two with her former husband, Augusto Gregorini\u2013they also run a charity called The Lotus Foundation. The foundation supports various projects for animals, substance abuse, homelessness and cancer. Starr, also an artist, donates 100 percent of sales to the organization.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no question that if they could, they\u2019d be together \u201cEight Days a Week.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the man, and that\u2019s it,\u201d Bach said.<\/p>\n
Starr adds, \u201cThere\u2019s no escape \u2026 I think I love Barbara as much [today] as I did [when we met] \u2013 and I\u2019m beyond blessed that she loves me and we\u2019re still together.\u201d<\/p>\n
We love hearing about love! And the one that\u2019s shared between the one-time Bond girl, Barbara Bach, and her Rockstar husband, Ringo Starr is so inspirational. We can\u2019t wait to see what they continue do with their charity work and their lives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"