Leaving Atlantic Records after the sales disaster of Ringo the 4th, Ringo Starr signed to CBS's Portrait label and returned to the record racks after only seven months with...
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Deemed so awful his US label wouldn't release it. Wise choice. Old Wave finally was released in the U.S. on CD with bonus tracks by Right Stuff/Capitol on September 6, 1994....
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Within the span of five years, Ringo Starr was able to muster up seven Top Ten singles, with three of them coming from the self-titled Ringo album. Taking all of these...
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Goodnight Vienna was very much a follow-up to Ringo, on which Ringo Starr called upon his bevy of musical buddies. Most prominent among them was John Lennon, who again wrote...
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With Ringo, Ringo Starr finally put his solo career in gear in 1973, after serving notice with back-to-back Top Ten singles in 1971 and 1972 that he had more to offer than...
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A follow-up compilation to Blast From Your Past, Starr Struck gathered together the better tracks from Ringo Starr's less successful albums originally released between 1976...
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The idea, back in 1980, was to resurrect Ringo Starr's recording career by the same method that it had been launched with the Ringo album in 1973 -- by having his fellow...
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On his first new studio album to be released in the U.S. in 11 years, Ringo Starr made a neo-'60s-sounding record that, if it didn't feature his Beatle-mates, certainly...
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Ringo Starr had a demonstrated affinity for country music, as heard on such Beatles recordings as "Act Naturally," and he sounded as modestly comfortable on this...
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Cut as the Beatles were disintegrating and released shortly before the group's final album, Let It Be, Ringo Starr's debut solo album was a collection of pre-rock standards...
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Vertical Man 6/16/1998, Yahoo! Music, Billy Altman
Just like the pictures of him on his last album, 1992's Time Takes Time, Ringo Starr is still flashing his '60s-centric peace sign. And just like that entertainingly retro...
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Just as MTV's Unplugged series started out as a great idea -- get musicians to reimagine their material in stripped-down arrangements -- then was reduced by the record...
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Ringo Starr once played the drums for the '60s pop rock group the Beatles and contributed his vocal stylings to tunes such as "Act Naturally," "Yellow...
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The Beatles never quite made a commercially released Christmas album, though they put together special singles for their fan club every year from 1963 to 1969, then compiled...
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It's hard to judge Ringorama, Ringo Starr's 12th proper studio album, by most standard critical criteria. Even comparing the record to his previous solo work doesn't quite...
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This edition in Universal's discount-priced compilation series 20th Century Masters -- The Christmas Collection is actually a re-titled reissue of the 1999 collection I...
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There's nothing surprising, or even all that different, about Choose Love, Ringo Starr's 13th studio album: it's firmly in the tradition of his 1992 return to recording,...
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