In 1965, Ringo leased flat 1 at 34 Montagu Square, around a mile from Abbey Road, and kept it as a city pied-à-terre even after he moved to Weybridge, Surrey. He’d rented the apartment first to Paul, then to twenty-five-year-old Jimi Hendrix, who wrote “The Wind Cries Mary,” a May 1967 British single that also appeared on his debut US album Are You Experienced, while living there. Ringo evicted Hendrix after the celebrity tenant damaged the apartment’s walls during an acid trip.
