Three years his junior, fair, blonde, petite and schooled at St Anthony of Padua secondary school in Mossley Hill, Patricia Davies began stepping out with Ritchie in his teddy boy days. She was his first "official girlfriend" and known to him and her best friend Pricilla White (who later found fame as "Cilla Black") simply as "Pat". She lived with her parents in a red-brick victorian house at 83 Medlock Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool.
She shared young Priscilla White’s glamorous ambition to become a hairdresser and "...That meant finding someone to practice on, but neither of our mum’s would let us near their hair. The only woman we ever met who didn’t mind us doing the practical work on her was Ringo’s mother , Elsie Starkey. On Wednesday nights we went ‘round to her house and she was the soul of patience. She let us bleach her hair and do terrible things to it, but she never once complained. She also gave us our tea - either boiled ham or Spam and home made chips. Mrs Starkey was a fantastic lady..."
Not much is known about her and Ring’ as a couple, but when the 17 year old Richard suddenly found himself busy with his new band and decided it would be best if they parted company, the two liked each other well enough to stay amicable. Pat had suited Ringo down to the ground because they both shared a great love of music, and she frequented all the popular music clubs in the early Merseybeat days. During the "Pete Best riots" of 1962 when Ringo joined The Beatles, Pat could be found stood next to Cilla supporting her ex-boyfriend by loudly yelling "Pete Never, Ringo FOREVER!". Shortly after that Ringo was dating Maureen Cox, but still saw a lot of Patricia because she was a regular at both the Blue Angel and the Zodiac Cellar where the couple frequented.
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