I went down and played and Richard and I got to egging each other on about doing something together. Starr said: вЂњWe met at a session for one of HarryвЂ™s albums. Ringo was produced by Richard Perry, who had worked with LennonвЂ™s friend Harry Nilsson. The original 10-track 1973 album was reissued in 1991 as a 13-track CD, the bonus tracks including вЂњEarly 1970,вЂќ StarrвЂ™s interesting perspective on The BeatlesвЂ™ break-up. StarrвЂ™s best and most consistent new studio album, Ringo represented both the drummer/singerвЂ™s dramatic comeback and his commercial peak it was only beaten to the top of the Billboard charts in November 1973 by Elton JohnвЂ™s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Though the album was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, BolanвЂ™s guitar was added as an overdub at A&M Studios. One of the highlights of Ringo is a version of master songwriter Randy NewmanвЂ™s composition вЂњHave You Seen My Baby.вЂќ StarrвЂ™s version has real verve, helped by compelling boogie guitar from T.Rex main man Marc Bolan and fine honky-tonk piano from New Orleans legend James Booker. Though StarrвЂ™s vocal range is not particularly wide, he sings with gusto throughout and his voice carries a certain pathos. Starr and Vini PonciaвЂ™s вЂњDevil WomanвЂќ were just as good as the hits. 1 вЂњPhotographвЂќ and вЂњOh My My,вЂќ which had backing vocals from Motown star Martha Reeves. Starr had been able to persuade the latter to be involved in the project by telling him, вЂњYou donвЂ™t want to be left out, do you?вЂќД«ut it wasnвЂ™t only the guests that made Ringo such a success: Starr advanced his own cause by co-writing two of the albumвЂ™s Top 10 singles, the No. Nicky Hopkins, a session musician who appeared regularly with The Rolling Stones, provides some lively piano backing, and there is even a kazoo impression from McCartney. 1 hit вЂњYouвЂ™re SixteenвЂќ (written by the Sherman Brothers), which provided the biggest single hit of the album. McCartney also appeared on StarrвЂ™s cover of the 1960 Johnny Burnette No. With a tight structure and lyrical grace, it is a standout composition on the record. In June 1973, Starr flew to London, where Paul McCartney and his then-wife, Linda, joined in on the McCartney tune вЂњSix OвЂ™clock,вЂќ which had been written specifically for the album. Harrison also joined in on вЂњSunshine Life For Me,вЂќ вЂњPhotographвЂќ and вЂњYou And Me (Babe),вЂќ co-writing the latter two. Harrison played the guitars on the Lennon composition вЂњIвЂ™m The Greatest,вЂќ with Lennon playing piano and singing harmony on a song he re-wrote for Starr and which was used as the albumвЂ™s opening track. However, on no single track did all four appear together. Rex, Harry Nilsson and all three former Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.Listen to Ringo on Apple Music and Spotify.Д¬onsequently, Ringo is the only solo Beatle album to feature all four of the Liverpudlians playing on one record. & the MGs, Billy Preston, Marc Bolan of T. From the beginning the sessions featured a star-studded cast, including members of the Band, Steve Cropper from Booker T. In the spring of 1973 he began recording Ringo. And I still do it now, a hundred years later.вЂќ Y'know the song's a song that fits into the universe and that's good. Just because of the fact that George has left. But the sentiment of that song I love, but now it has a different meaning, of course. The thing about 'Photograph' - the emotion I get from it - is that I was in Spain at the time when I wrote it. And (it) was probably the best structured of mine, which was helped by George. Ringo told us he'll always have a soft spot for вЂњPhotographвЂќ: вЂњ'Photograph,' y'know, was a huge song for me. An early attempt to record the song took place during sessions for Harrison's Living In The Material World album, which Ringo drummed on in early 1973. The song was co-written with his former Beatles bandmate George Harrison, and was the first single from his new Ringo album. It was 47 years ago this week (November 24th to November 30th 1973), that Ringo Starr's вЂњPhotographвЂќ hit the Number One spot.

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