Barbara Bach Stepped Away From Hollywood To Build A Life With Ringo Starr

The Bond girl Triple X, played by Barbara Bach, didn’t require saving from the spy who adored her.

Her rocker husband, Sir Richard Starkey, also known as Ringo Starr, was the hero she was searching for.

Had roles in Italian films

Bach, a 78-year-old model and actor, was at the height of her career in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, where she portrayed the possible enemy and love interest of Roger Moore’s character, James Bond, the womanizing 007 agent.

Bach described Bond as “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets,” according to a 1983 People article.

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, “Bond, like myself, is a male chauvinist pig. All my life I’ve been trying to get women out of brassieres and pants.”

Before starring in The Spy Who Loved Me, Bach starred in a number of Italian movies, including Black Belly of the Tarantula, a 1971 murder mystery, alongside other Bond Girls Barbara Bouchet from Casino Royale (1967) and Claudine Auger from Thunderball (1965).

The brown-haired beauty became an all-time favorite and paved the way for her acting career with her iconic role as a Bond girl.

Following her portrayal of the fictional KGB agent Major Anya Amasova, she starred in Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy, a 1980 Robert Downey Sr.-directed movie, and Caveman, a 1981 slapstick comedy in which she costarred with Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, and now-82-year-old Ringo Starr.

Bach’s character Lana is the object of Starr’s Neanderthal lust, but he eventually dumps her and chooses a different partner.

The events in actual life are not reflected in the screenplay at all.

The two met at the airport in Los Angeles while they were traveling to the Mexican filming location for Caveman.

Featured in a 1981 Playboy pictorial (per People), Bach said, “A lot of garbage has been written about us, none of it interesting,” she said. “The truth is, we weren’t 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–the last week of shooting–it just happened. We changed from friendly love to being in love.”

The Beatles singer gushed about his wife, whom he married over forty years ago, in an interview with the Irish Examiner in 2021.

“I 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’s how it happened,” Star recalled. “I’m blessed she’s in my life, that’s all I can ever say.”

Starr, of supernova fame, is the drummer for The Beatles, the most influential band in history. Additionally, Bach attended a Beatles performance at Shea Stadium in New York in 1965, where he performed with the late John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney as a member of the Fab Four.

Despite being present, Bach acknowledges that she wasn’t a huge Beatles fan. She was accompanied by her sister Marjorie, who was so enamored of the band that she arrived wearing a Beatles wig, and her friend Joe Walsh.

“My sister Marjorie was crazy about the Beatles,” Bach told People in a 1981 interview. “I liked [Bob] Dylan, Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones.”

In 1975, Marjorie married Walsh, who later became the guitarist for the Eagles. Walsh also performed with his brother-in-law in the live rock supergroup Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

Bach and Starr were married on April 27, 1981, with McCartney and Harrison as guests, just a few months after Lennon’s murder.

Since then, the two have been inseparable.

The automobile the couple was driving swerved to dodge a truck and turned over twice before coming to a rest in a near-fatal collision just before their wedding.

Starr said after the accident, “We decided we wouldn’t spend any time apart. So far the longest break was five days, and that was too long. I want to live every minute with Barbara.”

Additionally, they went to treatment together in 1988 and have remained sober ever since.

When the adorable couple celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2021, Starr posted a photo from their wedding day–McCartney and Harrison are also in the image–with the captioned, “It was 40 years ago today The love of my life said yes yes yes.”

The couple’s love extends beyond their blended family; Bach has two children with her ex-husband, Augusto Gregorini, and Starr has three with her late wife, Maureen Cox. They also manage a charity, The Lotus Foundation. The organization funds a number of initiatives related to cancer, homelessness, substance misuse, and animals. 100% of profits are donated to the organization by Starr, who is also an artist.

They would undoubtedly be together “Eight Days a Week” if they could.

“I love the man, and that’s it,” Bach said.

Starr adds, “There’s no escape … I think I love Barbara as much [today] as I did [when we met] – and I’m beyond blessed that she loves me and we’re still together.”

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