Sempre falam que ele foi o Beatle menos talentoso, que não tocava nada e que só queria fazer brincadeira. Richard Starkey Jr. teve várias bandas e começou a usar seu nome artístico Ringo devido aos anéis que sempre usa. Conheceu os Beatles em umas de suas turnês e entrou para substituir Pete Best e ficou até a separação deles em 1970. Lançou vários álbuns solos depois, todos são legais e sempre tem uma ou outra música dos Beatles. Esse ano ele lançou o Liverpool 8 que achei um espetáculo, não é aumentando assim porque ele é meu Beatle favorito, porque é muito bom mesmo. =)

“Dizem que não toco muito bem, mas sou o baterista da melhor banda do mundo… logo, sou o maior baterista do mundo!” (Ringo Starr)

E já que estou falando de um ex-Beatle, vou falar dos outros também. Encontraram fitas de uma entrevista do George Harrison de 1967. E um pouquinho antes encontraram uma outra de 64 com músicas de John Lennon e Paul McCartney que vai para leilão. Porque eu não encontro uma coisa dessas? Hahaha

Donna I.

So the world’s luckiest man is now officially too busy to sign autographs.

From the BBC article:

“Please do not send fan mail to any address you have,” he said in a video message on his website.

“Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it’s gonna be tossed.

“I’m warning you with peace and love I have too much to do,” the 68-year-old drummer said.

Dressed in black clothes and dark glasses, Starr said it was “a serious message to everybody watching”.

He added: “No more fan mail and no objects to be signed. Nothing.”

I can’t believe he actually returned signed objects to people in the first place, but “no fan mail”? Seriously? I suppose I’m now officially too busy to listen to “Liverpool 8″ or link to where you can buy it. He can’t train an assistant to answer his mail?

Peace and Love, Richard.

Na melhor televisão do Mundo, o YouTube, o encontro rock and roll entre Dave Grohl (ex batera do Nirvana e mentor do Foo Fighters) e o mestre Paul McCartney (sem maiores apresentações). O show rolou este ano em Liverpool, terra natal do ex-Beatle. Wroooooock!

Liverpool 8

Ringo Starr mi è stato sempre fatica… alla fine ho scelto questo ultimo singolo! Nel luglio del ‘92 stavo per andare al suo concerto alle Terme di Caracalla. Mentre ero in stazione, dalla radio vola la notizia che l’evento è stato annullato. Che sfiga! Il mio amico è andato a chiedere il rimborso, ed io mi sono consolato col fatto che il giorno dopo sarei partito per New York!

http://www.drummersrepublic.com/drummers/ringo-starr-biography-the-beatles-drummer/

http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/ringo_starr_biography.html

“Ultimately what’s most impressive about Ringo Starr isn’t what he’s been, but rather who he is,” wrote Rolling Stone rock critic David Wild.  ”The man’s great heart and soul, his wit and wisdom.” 

“When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer“, remembers Ringo, and four years later at age seventeen, he joined the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Band.  In 1959, Ringo hooked up with the Raving Texans, which later became Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.  In 1962, while playing a summer gig with Rory, Ringo was asked to join the Beatles.  Worried that he might cost his bandmates the summer gig if he left, Ringo delayed his departure until after they found themselves a replacement, and on August 18, 1962, Ringo Starr officially became a Beatle.

Of all the Beatles, he did the least songwriting.  The Beatles explained that when he would present a song as a contender for an album cut, the song would (to them) be a clear knockoff of another popular song, but Ringo would not recognize the similarities until they pointed it out.  Ringo did, however, write “Octopus’s Garden” (on the album Abbey Road) and “Don’t Pass Me By” (on The White Album), as well as a few others.  Ringo generally sang at least one song on each studio album; in some cases John Lennon or Paul McCartney would write the lyrics and melody especially for him, as Lennon did with “With a Little Help from My Friends“, from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Often these melodies would be deliberately limited to take into account Starr’s vocal range—most of With A Little Help From My Friends is sung within the space of five notes.

Starr did however contribute a number of lyric ideas and song titles to Lennon and McCartney, although usually unintentionally.  One of the most famous examples of this was the title for the band’s first motion picture, A Hard Day’s Night.  Starr had emerged from the studio after a long day of work and commented to the others that it had been a “hard day’s…” – before he finished his sentence, Starr noticed that it was now night time and added “night”.  Lennon and McCartney liked the twisted phrase enough that they decided to use it as the title for the still untitled movie the band had been filming.  Another example is the title to “Tomorrow Never Knows”.

Although some have tried to downplay his contributions to the band, Starr’s unique drumming style played a major role in the overall sound of The Beatles.  To this day, many drummers list Starr as a major influence including Max Weinberg of The E Street Band, Liberty DeVitto of Billy Joel’s band, Phil Collins, Andy Sturmer of Jellyfish, and many, many others. 

According to Collins, Ringo is “vastly underrated.  The drum fills on “A Day In The Life” are very complex things.  You could take a great drummer today and say, ‘I want it like that.’  They wouldn’t know what to do.”  Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison have all said that Ringo was the best rock and roll drummer in the world. 

As everyone knows, the Beatles went on to become the world’s most popular band, but it wasn’t until that chapter of Ringo’s life was ending that his transcendence to the beloved artist he is today – was just beginning. 

In 1970, Ringo released his first solo record, entitled Sentimental Journey, which was exactly that – a sentimental record capturing the music he grew up with (he later said “I did it for my Mum”).  The following year Ringo released Beacoups of Blues, a country and western album that he recorded with Pete Drake in Nashville in just 2 days.  That same year, the Beatles broke up.

Ringo’s passion for creating music continued to propel him forward, and in 1971 he began his unprecedented run as the first solo Beatle to score 7 consecutive Top 10 singles starting with the release of It Don’t Come Easy, with a B side of Early 1970.  His second hit single, Back Off Boogaloo/Blindman followed in 1972, and was written with and inspired by T Rex frontman Marc Bolan. Then, in 1973, Ringo released his self titled smash hit Ringo, which yielded 3 Top 10 singles, including the number one hits, Photograph/Down and Out, and You’re Sixteen/Devil Woman.  

Ringo also marked the first time since the breakup that all the Beatles participated in the same project, though not at the same time.  Between the years 1974-1978 Ringo continued to release more hits, including the top ten singles, Only You/Call Me, and No No Song/Snookeroo, and the albums: Goodnight Vienna 1974; Blast From Your Past 75; Rotogravure 76; Ringo The 4th 77; and in 1978 Bad Boy which included a television special with Art Carney and Carrie Fisher.

In 1981 Starr recorded Stop and Smell the Roses, his most critically acclaimed record since Ringo, followed by Old Wave in 1983 where he teamed up with producer Joe Walsh. Ringo’s greatest hits collection; Starr Struck – Best Of Ringo Starr Vol. 2 – was released in 1989.

The 90’s saw Starr release some of the best records of his career, and he also found consistent success as a live act with his revolving All Starr Band. The concept for the All Starr Band was first presented in 1989.  ”I got a message from a guy named David Fishof asking if I’d be interested in putting a band together.  I had been thinking the same thing – and so I went through my phone book rang up a few friends and asked them if they’d like to have fun in the summer.”  Those friends included Eagle Joe Walsh; E-Streeters Clarence Clemmons and Nils Lofgren; former Band members Rick Danko and Levon Helm; Dr. John, Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner.

The tour met with great success and yielded Ringo’s first live album, released on Rykodisc in 1990 titled simply, Ringo and His All Starr Band.  ”I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band”, says Ringo.

In 1992 Ringo Starr released Time Takes Time (Private Music) and the New York Times hailed it as “Starrs best: more consistently pleasing than Ringo, it shows him as an assured performer and songwriter.”   Later that same year Ringo put together his second All Starr Band which featured Burton Cummings, Dave Edmunds, Nils Lofgren, Todd Rundgren, Timothy B Schmidt, Zak Starkey, and Joe Walsh.  This line up also featured Ringo’s son Zak, who joined him on drums, and was the first time Ringo had toured Europe since the Beatles.  The 2nd All Starr Band also yielded the release; Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band – Live From Montreaux.

Ringo’s 3rd All Starr Band in 1995 toured the US and Japan, and again featured Zak Starkey as well as John Entwistle, Felix Cavaliere, Mark Farner, Billy Preston, Mark Rivera and Randy Bachman.  In 1997 he released Ringo Starr And His Third All Starr Band Vol. 1 – and also assembled his 4th All Starr band:  Gary Brooker,  Jack Bruce, Peter Frampton, Simon Kirke, Mark River.  

They toured the US, Europe, and in 1998 joined Ringo as he became the first former Beatle to play in Russia.  1998 heralded the release of Vertical Man (Mercury), which was recorded with Mark Hudson, and marked the first collaboration with Ringo and “the Roundheads”.  It was one of Starr’s strongest records – due largely to his deep involvement as drummer, singer, co-writer and co-producer.  This was followed by an appearance at New York’s Bottom Line and then on VH1’s StoryTellers, which saw Ringo and the Roundheads performing an assortment of his greatest hits including It Don’t Come Easy; Photograph; Back off Boogaloo and Don’t Pass Me By. The performance was later released as a CD of the same title, StoryTellers (Mercury).

1999 began with the creation of the 5th All Starr Band (February 12th – March 29th) which consisted of Gary Brooker, Jack Bruce, Timmy Cappello, Simon Kirke, Todd Rundgren.

In October 1999 Ringo released the irrepressibly festive, I Want To Be Santa Claus (Mercury), which was a mix of classics (The Little Drummer Boy) and originals (I Wanna Be Santa Claus).

The 6th All Starr Band was launched in 2000, and was made up of Jack Bruce, Eric Carmen, Dave Edmunds, Simon Kirke, Mark Rivera.  They toured the States May 12th – July 1st. The following Spring, (2001), Ringo put together the 7th All Starr Band, which featured the first female All Starr – Sheila E – as well as Greg Lake, Roger Hodgson, Ian Hunter, Howard Jones, Mark Rivera. Then on July 24 2001, Ringo celebrated over a decade of All Starr Tours with the release of Ringo and His All Starr Band The Anthology, So Far…(Koch).

In March 2003 The Roundheads launched the release of Ringo Rama (Koch) with another impromptu performance at New York’s Bottom Line. 

“There is a lot of me in these songs,” Starr told rock critic David Wild. “As time goes on, my personality is coming out more and more in the music.  That’s just what happens.  On this album my drumming is more dynamic, I’m more to the front, I think I’m singing better and I believe we’re writing better songs.  All the touring helps because then you’re keeping your chops up. I suppose I had a long time off and now I’ve had a long time on.”

David goes on to describe Ringo Rama as “a grown-up thrill ride, (it) lovingly and at times movingly celebrates yesterday and today.  This is a song cycle that appropriately acknowledges the former Beatle’s illustrious past but at the same time powerfully insists on the paramount importance of living and loving here and now. Ringo Rama would be a fine album without any of its back story.  Yet coming from Starr, it feels in a sense like the album of a lifetime.”

Later that same year Ringo and Mark Hudson announced the formation of their label Pumkinhead Records, and signed their first artist, Liam Lynch.  Finally, 2003’s 8th All Starr Band hit the road with Paul Carrack, Sheila E., Colin Hay, Mark Rivera, John Waite.  This tour resulted in another live CD, Tour 2003 (Koch), and a soon to be released DVD.

“For me it works as a great formula, it’s just really a great way for me to do it,” Ringo said about the All Starr experience.  ”If you look at all the bands I’ve put together, its an incredible array of musicians, all these different people. Everyone has hit records, hit songs.  The show consists of me upfront and then I go back behind the kit and support the others. It’s just good music and I’m having a lot of fun and that’s what it all about – great music and fun.”

In 2004 Genesis books announced a limited edition print run of Postcards From The Boys, the proceeds of which went to the Lotus Foundation Charity.  Ringo described the book as a “presentation of postcards John, Paul and George have sent me over the years.  What’s incredible about them is that some are actual art pieces that would only ever have been sent to Ringo.”

To date Ringo has released 23 solo records, which includes 14 studio albums, and continues to tour regularly with his All Starr Band. Ringo’s music, as a solo artist and as a Beatle, is permeated with his personality – his warmth and humor, his exceptional musicianship – have given us songs we all know and love:  With A Little Help From My Friends; Don’t Pass Me By; Octopus’ Garden; Photograph; It Don’t Come Easy; Don’t Go Where the Road Don’t Go; La De Da; Memphis in Your Mind; Never Without You.  Fans will be happy to know that Ringo is currently back in the studio with The Roundheads, and they can expect a new record and another All Starr Tour in 2008.

Ringo Starr – Liverpool 8

Tracklist:

01. Liverpool 8
02. Think About You
03. For Love
04. Now That She’s Gone Away
05. Gone Are The Days
06. Give It A Try
07. Tuff Love
08. Harry’s Song
09. Pasodobles
10. If It’s Love That You Want
11. Love Is
12. R U Ready

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En algun día de estos, voy a escribir algo yo, y no solo postear discos porque me parece que estoy desaprovechando todo lo que se puede hacer con un blog.

Es el mas reciente álbum de Ringo Starr, Liverpool 8, del cual se desprende el primer sencillo con el mismo nombre, Liverpool 8, recordando los años dorados con The Beatles. Snif snif.

LIVERPOOL 8 by Ringo Starr

I was a sailor first, I sailed the sea
Then I got a job, in a factory
Played Butlin’s Camp with my friend Rory
It was good for him, it was great for me

Livepool I left you, said ‘goodbye’ to Madryn Street
I always followed my heart, and I never missed a beat
Destiny was calling, I just couldn’t stick around
Liverpool I left you, but I never let you down

Went to Hamburg, the red lights were on
With George & Paul, and my friend John
We rocked all night, we all looked tough
We didn’t have much, but we had enough

Livepool I left you, said ‘goodbye’ to Madryn Street
I always followed my heart, and I never missed a beat
Destiny was calling, I just couldn’t stick around
Liverpool I left you, but I never let you down

In the U.S.A. when we played Shea
We were Number One, and it was fun
When I look back, it sure was cool
For those Four Boys from Liverpool

Livepool I left you, said ‘goodbye’ to Admiral Grove
I always followed my heart, so I took it on the road
Destiny was calling, I just couldn’t stick around
Liverpool I left you, but I never let you down

La la la la la la….Liverpool

Social networking sites like Facebook make it easy to know (whether you want to or not, which is another post entirely) what kind of music your friends are listening to. In some circles, Facebook has been used in a sort of arms race between people to show off just how forward-thinking and underground they are in the music scene.

Why? Because music, specifically an individual’s taste in it, is a social self-selector. The indie hipsters have their milieu as do the classic rock junkies and hip-hop mavens and all the rest because your musical taste, in many ways, says something about you and, at the most basic level of simple human nature, people of a certain group feel pressure to conform to the group’s taste…be it clothing or music or whatever.

That happens no matter what age you are, as evidences by all of the very hip 20-somethings in my office walking around in $400 jeans and all listening to the same bands on their iTunes.

Those choices, music included, say something about you. They place you into a social category. In many cases a self-selected social category…like the friend of mine who purposely dresses sloppily at work to look “creative” while really being a dandy who looks like Daniel Craig in James Bond on the weekend.

So what better way to enhance the social category-making power of music than to couple it with fashion? Ringo Starr, of all people, has brought the idea to reality by releasing his new album, Liverpool 8, on a USB wristband:

Music as fashion make a lot of sense, though I would have guessed that it would make the most sense with the younger demographic that Ringo, for all his charms, does not attract.

All this will take is a rap star like Jay-Z at some awards show with a wristband of his favorite album to make this become the next big fashion icon. The album wristband says just as much about you as those livestrong wristbands did, but it also has some value in the music on it and, depending on the technology, the ability to share songs and other files. Britney, had she not gone completely off the deep end, would have been well poised, with her demo, to capitalize on something like this.

Ringo, however, just may not attract the right kind of consumer to make this a real success.

It is a good idea though.

Lo último del ex Beatle Ringo Starr tiene por título la ciudad que le vio nacer y en la que comenzó a forjar junto a sus compañeros John Lennon, George Harrison y Paul McCartney su leyenda en el mundo de la música. Liverpool 8 es el single del álbum homónimo publicado en enero de 2008, aunque el tema estaba disponible en forma de descarga digital desde diciembre del año anterior.

En la canción, muy al estilo pop británico, Ringo se brinda un homenaje en forma de autobiografía musical. El videoclip hace especial hincapié en su etapa en The Beatles, alternando las imágenes de la banda con un caleidoscopio como elemento de unión.

Last night I saw Ringo Starr on the Late Show, playing the lead song to his new album Liverpool 8.

Here’s what’s different. The album is a 2GB Flash Drive embedded into a rubber bracelet, of course the name of the album is on the bracelet and the price is around the same as any new album. $20 from memory. As well as the album the contents include a music video, interviews, photos and more.

If you buy the album, you will probably want to wear it because it is novel and this being the first time it has been done (to my knowledge) it will become a colectors item. This could become the ultimate fashion wear for 2008. What are you listening to? Check it out on my wrist. The only drawback is that you can’t plug it into your car stereo or your iPod, but that will no doubt come if the concept takes off.

Storing multiple albums could be a bit of a problem, but I’m sure there will be appropriate refinements.

About 8 years ago I tried to get the local media to publish a story I wrote, saying that if the music industry doesn’t take care of their music buying public and take advantage of the capabilities of new media such as adding video, interviews, photos etc to albums, they will have a hard time competing with downloads. But if they add so much material (that they have anyway and don’t generally sell) so that it isn’t worth the hassle or cost of downloading everything, they will be in trouble.

The media didn’t want my story because it was controversial and probably because a lot of there advertising revenue came from the record companies. Hey guess what, yeah I was right. Now I’m not super clever, I’m just being logical. I think the record companies were arrogant and had the attitude of some Japanese manufacturers of a decade ago, who said to their customers, we will tell you what features you want on your products and how to use them, but that’s another story.

The point is, we are in the world of new media. Consumers have loads of choices. BUT, they are prepared to pay for value. EMI, Sony etc. if you want to keep your market, you need to give value. If you don’t you may just find that you aren’t needed or wanted any more. It’s not too late, but you need to understand, its not just about the media you print your music on, it’s about being innovative, listening to your customers and being innovative, fun, inspiring, sticky and giving value for money.

Instead of sacking your staff, sacking your entertainers and making them do their own promotion, how about talking to them.  There’s a novel idea. Here’s the question. It’s 2010 and the music industry as we knew it has collapsed. It has taken with it major printing companies, media companies, wholesalers and retailers and increased unemployment noticeably. If you were able to go back to 2008, what would you do differently?

I just show in utube a video from yesterday’s show with Jonathan Ross  where Ringo Starr was among other guests of Mr Ross like sir Sir David Attenborough, Samantha Janus and  Rita Simons from the Eastenders (what a combination really) , I mean no hard feelings for the Eastenders but not next to holly monsters mr Ross. Anyway I just want to mention that I am really sick with all those guys that spit so much poison at one of the best guys (with late George God bless him) of the Beatles.

Ringo is was and will be a Great guy that is all folks.

 by the way have a look here to read more about England

Sheryl Crow at the Fillmore New York on Wed. & Thurs. Feb. 6 and 7. Tickets on sale this morning at 10:00 am. (Standing room only) $43.50.

Black Crowes at the Fillmore New York on Tues. Mar. 4. Tickets on sale today at noon. $43.50. Crowes new disc, War Paint hits stores on Mar. 4th. Received a good write-up (not review) from this week’s Rolling Stone.

Megadeth…\m/ \m/….at Hammerstein Ballroom as part of the Gigantour on Tues. April 22 at 5:00 p.m. Other acts include Children of Bodum, High on Fire, In Flames and Job for a Cowboy. Tickets on sale this morning at 10:00 am. $41.50.

Babyface at the Music Box at Borgota in Atlantic City on Fri. Feb. 29 and Sat. Mar. 1. Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10:00 am. $30.

Michael Buble at Borgota Event Center on Fri. & Sat. Mar. 21 & 22. Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10:00 am. $45-$75.

Yellow Card with MXPX and Play Radio Play at Fillmore New York on Sat. Mar. 15. Tickets on sale Sat. Feb. 2.

Styx at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill NY next Wed. Sponsored by WPDH FM. Tickets on sale now $75- $110. (No Dennis DeYoung).

Rush at PNC Arts Center on Sat. July 12. Tickets on sale Sat. Feb. 2.

Other items:

A conversation with Chuck Klosterman, promoting his new book- The Fiction of Criticism and Vice Versa- will take place at the Highline Ballroom on Tues. Mar. 6th. Tickets are on sale now. $12. ($10 minimum at table).

Congrats to Madonna, John Mellencamp and The Dave Clark Five Band (finally!!… “And I’m feeling…Glad all Over Yes I’m glad all over”) have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2008.

Live Nation, the worlds biggest concert promoter, will replace Ticketmaster early next year with its own ticket service!! (“Ding Dong the witch is dead”… but I guess another one grows).

Stephen Stills underwent a successful operation for prostate cancer on Jan. 3 in L.A. He’s expected to make a complete recovery and launch a tour this spring. Very cool.

Ringo Starr’s new CD “Liverpool 8″ received a rating of three and a half stars from Rolling Stone this week.  Also interviewed in same edition and said the worst session ever was “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and called it the worst track that they ever had to record. When asked if “Sgt. Pepper” to be the greatest album of all time- he said no- White Album is what he picked- one of my desert island discs.

New Yes 2-Disc DVD just released which depicts their definitive fully authorized story. Includes original music, rare and unseen photographs, new interviews and more!!

I-Tunes finally had a cool free new song this week and you need to pick it up now!! Song called “Shockwave” from a band named Black Tide. Check out the song on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4aqN0XlRc. The band is all younger than 21 and supposedly the singer is 15. They played at Ozzfest last year. Sounds good!! \m/ \m/

Today David Ruffin would have been 67. Lead singer for the Temptations, he was one of the all time original R&B singer and original member of MoTown. He led the Temptations with his distinctive voice and stage presence. He died back in 1991.

Back on this day in 1964, Gene Pitney‘s “The Girl Belongs to Yesterday” made its way into America’s top 100. The song was written by Jagger/Richards- their first song to crack American charts. Back on this day in 1985, the city of Cleveland was picked in a poll by fans as the place for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. “Cleveland Rocks..Cleveland Rocks”

La moda de los USB llega a todas partes. El ex Beatles, Ringo Starr presenta su último disco “Liverpool 8″ en una pulsera USB. Esto no significa que no habrá una edición en disco, pero la USB traerá además videos, comentarios, ringtones, fotos y otras sorpresas más.

El disco (o la unidad USB) saldrá a la venta el 15 de enero y contiene 12 canciones:

1. Liverpool 8
2. Think About You
3. For Love
4. Now That She’s Gone Away
5. Gone Are The Days
6. Give It A Try
7. Tuff Love
8. Harry’s Song
9. Pasodobles
10. If It’s Love That You Want
11. Love Is
12. R U Ready?