Artist: Ringo Star Genre(s):
Rock & Roll
Discography:
The 4Th Year: 1977
Tracks: 12
Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey, was the drummer in the Beatles from 1962 to 1970 and thus one of the nigh celebrated musicians of the '60s. Though the least prominent member of the four, he grand himself as an occasional singer of good-natured material and as an histrion. Upon the group's split, Starr went solo with 2 freshness projects: the first base, an album called
Hokey Journey, constitute him coating pre-rock standards, and the minute,
Beaucoups of Blues, was a country medicine compendium.
Starr so scored Top Ten hits with 2 non-album singles, "It Don't Come Easy" in 1971 and "Back Off Boogaloo" in 1972. In 1973 he paired with producer Richard Perry and, with assist from the troika other ex-Beatles, made
Ringo, which featured two issue i hits, "Snap" and "You're Sixteen." "Oh My My," a Top Ten hit, was too included. Almost as successful was the 1974 followup,
Goodnight Vienna, which featured the hits "Only You" and "No No Song."
Starkey continued to outlet albums through and through 1981, though with diminishing success. His 1983 album
Old Wave did not find a U.S. distributer. Starr was also distress from the excesses of his life-style, just by the former '80s he had cleaned up, and in 1989 he toured with his "All-Starr Band." In 1992, he signed to Private Music and released a new studio record album,
Sentence Takes Time.
Vertical Man, his low gear record album for Mercury, followed in 1998, as did a disk culled from his public presentation on the
VH1 Storytellers series. Starr's low gear seasonal endeavour,
I Wanna Be Santa Claus, appeared a class later. Two studio records appeared during the early 2000s:
Ringorama from 2003 and
Choose Love deuce long time later. In 2006 he made a guest appearing on Jerry Lee Lewis' album
Last Man Standing and toured with another edition of his All-Starr Band, this time featuring Sheila E. and Edgar Winter. The 2007 release
PBS Soundstage Live featured a show recorded two long time earlier in Chicago. Also released in 2007 was the definitive
Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr.
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