Ringo Starr is nothing if not always a gentleman, a true hippie at heart and a crowd pleaser, which is why you cannot really get angry with the guy for pleading with his fans to stop sending him autograph requests.

The 68-year-old music legend has posted a funny video on his official website, pleading with fans to stop sending him letters requesting autographs as well as objects to be signed.

He begins his video with his trademark peace sign, wishes everyone peace and love and goes on to say, quite passionately, that he wants no more fan mail and that anything arriving in his mail box after October 20 will be “tossed.”

Explaining that he has too much to do and that signing papers for his admirers is no longer a desirable activity, Starr interjects “peace and love” a couple of times more and ends the video with another peace sign.

Born Richard Starkey, the artist became the official drummer of British pop/rock band The Beatles in 1962, a role that has forever engraved his name in music history. Starr and fellow members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon formed one of the most critically acclaimed bands of all time.

The Fab Four disbanded in 1970 but Starr went on to accomplish a successful solo career and remains active to this day.

In recent years, he has toured extensively with his All-Starr band, which performs Beatles songs, tracks from Starr’s solo albums and other evergreens from the 1960s and 1970s.

We are left to suppose that Ringo Starr has been heroically signing the thousands of letters coming his way all these years, as once depicted in an episode of “The Simpsons.” He once guest starred in the popular animated series as himself, tediously signing every piece of fan mail in his mailbox and explaining that he did not care if it took him 20 years to finish the job, those people had bothered to write to him and they deserved an answer.

Starr’s most recent studio effort, “Liverpool 8,” was released earlier this year. In July, in the midst of touring, the drummer/singer/songwriter/actor made a special stop in Chicago to share peace, love(he has a lot of that to go around it appears!) and cupcakes with fans who wished to celebrate his 68th anniversary.

Starr had said in an interview that the best birthday he could envision was to have people around the world flash the peace sign at noon on July 7, his birthday, and the Hard Rock Café in Chicago made it a point to fulfill his wish. He and wife Barbara Bach personally handed out Birthday cupcakes to fans.

So you can’t really blame the guy for not being generous toward his fans. There comes a time when we all want a break though.