Sir Richard Starkey, well known as Ringo Starr, her rocker spouse, was the hero she was searching for.
Bach, a 75-year-old model and singer, was at the height of her career in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, as the womanizing 007 operative and possible enemy of Roger Moore’s character, James Bond.
Bach described Bond as “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets” in a 1983 People article.
Moore concurred, saying in an interview with People in 1973—the year he played in his first Bond movie, Live and Let Die—that “Bond, like myself, is a masculine chauvinist pig.” I’ve spent my entire life advocating for women to give up wearing pants and brassieres.
Before The Spy Who Loved Me, Bach starred in a number of Italian films, including the murder mystery Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), in which she costarred with several Bond Girls, including Claudine Auger from Thunderball (1965) and Barbara Bouchet from Casino Royale (1967).
The brown-haired beauty helped establish her acting career and became an all-time favorite with her iconic performance as a Bond girl.
She portrayed the fictional KGB agent Major Anya Amasova before appearing in the 1981 slapstick comedy Caveman, which she costarred in with Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, and now-82-year-old Ringo Starr, and the 1980 film Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy, which was directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Bach’s character Lana is the object of Starr’s Neanderthal affection, but he ultimately rejects her and chooses a different relationship.
The events in actual life are not at all portrayed in the screenplay.
The now-famous “amphibious” Lotus Esprit is being relied upon by Barbara Bach and Roger Moore, who acted in the James Bond movie “The Spy Who Loved Me.” (Image courtesy of Getty Images/Holiday Archive.)
The two met in the Los Angeles airport on their way to the Mexican set of Caveman.
According to People, Bach, who starred in a 1981 Playboy film, claimed that “a lot of garbage has been written about us, none of it interesting.” We weren’t together till the very end of Caveman, to be honest. We got along well at work, despite the fact that we each had our own friends and other people. Then, in the final week of filming, it was unexpected. Our friendship turned into a passionate one.
The Beatles singer gushed about his wife, whom he married almost 40 years ago, in a 2021 interview with the Irish Examiner.
“I adore the woman.” When I met her for the first time at LAX in 1980, I fell in love. When I was checking in, she was at the airport with a guy. It just so happened that we were both going to Mexico to work on the same film. And thus it came to pass,” Star remembered. “I just wanted to say thank you for being in my life.”
Starr was the drummer for the Beatles, the most influential band in history. In 1965, Bach attended the Beatles’ performance at Shea Stadium in New York, where he was a member of the Fab Four, which also featured Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and the late John Lennon.
Despite being there, Bach acknowledges that she wasn’t a huge Beatles fan. Her sister Marjorie, who was so enamored of the band that she arrived wearing a Beatles wig, and her friend Joe Walsh joined her.
In an interview from 1981, Bach said, “My sister Marjorie was a Beatles fan.” “I enjoyed the Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, and [Bob] Dylan.”
In 1975, Walsh, who later became the guitarist for the Eagles, wed Marjorie. Walsh also performed with his brother-in-law in the live rock group Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
McCartney and Harrison attended Bach and Starr’s April 27, 1981, wedding, which took place just a few months after Lennon’s murder.
Since then, the two have been inseparable.
The couple’s car swerved to escape a truck, turned over twice, and finally came to a halt in a near-fatal collision just before their wedding.
Starr stated, “We decided we wouldn’t spend any time apart” following the accident. The largest interval to date was five days, which was too long. I wish Barbara and I could be together all the time.
Since they went to treatment together in 1988, they have also remained sober.
Starr shared a picture from their wedding day, which also featured McCartney and Harrison, with the comment, “It was 40 years ago today The love of my life said yes yes yes,” in 2021 to commemorate the cute couple’s 40th anniversary.
The affection between the pair extends beyond their blended family; Starr has three children with her late wife, Maureen Cox, and Bach has two with her ex-husband, Augusto Gregorini. Additionally, they oversee The Lotus Foundation, a nonprofit. The charity funds many programs related to substance misuse, homelessness, cancer, and animals. All profits are donated to the group by Starr, who is also an artist.
They would undoubtedly spend “eight days a week” together if they could.
“I simply adore the man,” Bach remarked.
“There’s no escape,” Starr continues. It is truly a blessing that Barbara still loves me and that we are still together. I believe that my feelings for her haven’t changed since our initial encounter.
Love stories are interesting to us! The one that is shared between Barbara Bach, the former Bond girl, and her rock star spouse Ringo Starr is also very inspirational. We’re eager to see what they achieve in life and in their charitable endeavors!
