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Ringo Starr has new music out this year, but don’t expect to hear it on tour. The drummer was recently asked by Variety about previous comments he’d made regarding not playing new material on the road with the All-Starr Band because people tend to use those moments for bathroom breaks. “I promise you, any band out there, say ‘I’d like to do something from my new LP, EP, CD,’ and you can feel the vibe of people going to the toilet, or going to find some T-shirts,” Starr explained. “This, with the All Starrs, is so great because [playing the hits] is why we’re there: We’re the best 1-800 band in...
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Ringo Starr has been issuing EPs since 2021 but is now pledging to return with an album-length project. He’ll follow up the April release of Crooked Boy by circling back to country music, a genre that helped define Starr’s career with the Beatles and as a solo artist. “I’m working on it with someone very special – T Bone Burnett,” Starr tells USA Today. “He’s doing stuff in Nashville and he comes to L.A. and it’s all working out. He came to me with nine songs. It won’t be out until October, at least.” Starr also recorded 1970’s countrified Beaucoup of Blues in Nashville. His sophomore solo rel...
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When the Beatles‘ Let It Be film premiered in May 1970, it was met with negative reviews and painted a bleak portrait of the world’s biggest rock band on the brink of destruction. But as a restored version of the documentary arrives on Disney+ this week, it’s poised for a reappraisal — including from Ringo Starr. “I was always moaning about the original film, because there was no real joy in it,” Starr told the Daily Beast. The drummer cited a heavily dissected scene between Paul McCartney and George Harrison, where they snipe at each other while trying to work out a song arrangement. “It was ...
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Ringo Starr has announced new tour dates for his All Star Band. Spring concerts were previously announced; the new run of shows will take place in the fall. The nine new dates start on Sept. 12 in Omaha and run through Sept. 25 with a show at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Starr will also release a new EP, Crooked Boy, on Saturday for Record Store Day; a digital edition will arrive on April 26. “February Sky,” the first single from the EP, was released last week. You can hear it below. Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on Youtube In other news, Starr’s old band the Beatles will see th...
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Sir Paul McCartney was "so embarrassed" when he tried to play lead guitar with the Beatles. The 81-year-old music legend was part of the iconic rock group alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr but explained when he tried playing lead guitar during an early gig instead of bass, he "totally froze" on stage. Speaking on the 'Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics' podcast, he explained: "Mind you, when I first met John. He didn’t play guitar, ‘cause I had to show him guitar chords because he’d been taught by his mum [Julia], and she only knew banjo chords. " We had this gig and it was ...
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Linda Perry is known these days for her songwriting and production work with Adele, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Pink … and Ringo Starr? The unlikely couple began collaborating amid a string of EP releases from the former Beatles star, first on “Coming Undone” from 2021’s Change the World. Something clicked. “It was so beautiful. I love what the song says – and it does happen. It comes undone somedays,” Starr told Perry on her Twitch show, The Art of … With Linda Perry, noting that she also sang and played guitar and bass on the track. “All the effort you put in it was so great for me. It...
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Ringo Starr hat die erste Single ‚February Sky‘ aus seiner kommenden EP ‚Crooked Boy‘ angekündigt.Der legendäre ehemalige Beatles-Schlagzeuger wird am Freitag (12. April) den neuen Track aus der Feder von Linda Perry veröffentlichen. Tatsächlich wurden alle vier Tracks von der renommierten Songwriterin und Produzentin geschrieben, die unter anderem schon für Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Pink und Adele schrieb. Der 83-jährige Musikstar steuerte seinen Gesang und sein Schlagzeugspiel bei. Nachdem sie gemeinsam an ‚Everyone and Everything‘ von ‚EP3‘ aus dem Jahr 2022 und ‚Coming Undone‘ von ...
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John Lennon used to be insecure about wearing glasses, according to Sir Paul McCartney. The 81-year-old music legend shot to fame alongside the late John - who was shot dead at the age of 40 in 1980 - as part of rock group The Beatles in the 1960s but revealed that his bandmate used to have "horn-rimmed glasses" that made him look like boy wizard Harry Potter and would only ever keep them on for fellow musician Buddy Holly. Speaking on Radio 2, he said: "John had these horn-rimmed glasses at the time and if ever there would be a girl coming round John would whip his glasses off and put them in...
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A Grammy Award given to the late John Lennon is expected to fetch up to $500,000 at auction. The Beatles legend - who was shot dead in 1980 - and his bandmates, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison, were given the Grammy Trustee statuettes in 1972 in recognition to their "significant contributions to the field of recording", but the 'Imagine' singer didn't want his trophy, and it is now up for sale. Gotta Have Rock and Roll, a music memorabilia-based auction house, told TMZ that John told the president of the Grammys: "I'm not a Beatle anymore, you can keep it." A d...
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Sir Paul McCartney "doesn't want to let go" of his late Beatles bandmates. The 81-year-old music legend is one of the surviving members of the legendary 1960s rock group along with Ringo Starr but following the death of John Lennon - who was fatally shot in 1980 - and George Harrison's 2001 passing at the age of 51 after a battle with cancer, admitted that they will forever remain in his heart. He told The Sunday Times: "When we started we thought that, maybe, we’d have ten years — that was the maximum span for a rock’n’roll group. I like the idea of not letting go of each other. "You know, wh...
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