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Ringo Starr's 1972 feature film about British glam rocker Marc Bolan and his band, T-Rex, Born to Boogie, was released Tuesday on DVD. The movie featuring concert footage and commentary from Starr and Bolan will be screened for the first time in more than two decades Thursday at New York City's Landmark Sunshine Theater, the New York Daily News reported. The film had been lost since Bolan's death in a car accident in 1977. It was recently discovered in a bunker beneath London and restoration took about six months, the Daily News said. Bolan's producer, Tony Visconti, told the Daily News the Beatles drummer became fascinated with Bolan and the whole androgynous glam rock scene of the early '70s. The papers had been saying Marc was bigger than the Beatles, Visconti said. Ringo bought it. Click here for more info on the DVD, T. Rex: Born to Boogie
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RINGO STARR 2008 VALENTINE GIVEAWAY
Approximately 500+ fans gathered at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 25 for a free mini concert by Ringo Starr. Tickets were given out with a purchase of Ringo's new Liverpool 8 CD or USB wristband at Amoeba Records in Hollywood a few days earlier.
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RINGO STARR'S NEW STUDIO ALBUM, LIVERPOOL 8, TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 15 BY CAPITOL/EMI
KOCH Records is pleased to announce the release of "Ringo Live at Soundstage," a live album by Ringo Starr.
Photos by Bill Greenberg
Ringo's 2006 All Starr Concert Tour: Las Vegas, NV, July 1, 2006 Report and Photos by Shelley Germeaux Photos copyright Daytrippin'
Ringo's All Starr band shines at Mandalay Bay: Las Vegas July 1, 2006
Ringo brought the 2006 line-up of the All-Starrs to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on July 1, the day after he appeared at the gala premiere of the Cirque show, "LOVE". The 9th incarnation of the All-Starrs include Rod Argent (The Zombies, Argent) who performs "Hold Your Head Up" for the show, to a rousing audience who had no trouble remembering the words; Richard Marx (songwriter/solo artist) with "Don't Mean Nothin'"; drummer Sheila E. (Prince), her third time with the All-Starrs rocking the audience with hits "Love Bizarre" and "The Glamorous Life"; Billy Squier (played with everyone from Hendrix to Foreigner and Alice Cooper) playing "Everybody Wants You" and "Rock Me Tonight"; Edgar Winter, the musical prodigy who invented the strap-on keyboard and made musical history with the 1970's hit, "Frankenstein"; and Hamish Stuart (Average White Band, Paul McCartney.)
Ringo, wearing a Def Leppard t-shirt, was in his usual fine form, opening the show to say, "Well, you guys look cooler than we are," referring to the beach and wave pool, "because it's hotter than HELL up here!" which brought cheers from the audience. He also commented, "The All-Starrs have played at some interesting places over the years, but this one takes the cake!" Sheila E., who has slimmed down considerably, with a sleek new hairstyle, was of course as awesome as she always is on drums, getting everyone rocking on their feet and cheering to her up-front percussion drum solos. Several times she threw drumsticks out to the audience.
Ringo performed his hits with the Beatles and his solo days: "Yellow Submarine" ‚ "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Photograph", and "It Don't Come Easy." Delving into lesser-known work, he said, "This is from my last album, Choose Love‚" to which all of us in the water right in front of him cheered. He pointed down at us and chuckled, "thank you to the ten people in the front row who actually bought the album‚" drawing laughs. As he began the title song I wanted to show Ringo that I really did buy the album. Noticing no one else around me singing, when the first chorus came up, I pointed straight at him and sang "Choose LOVE" along with him. Amused, he grinned and pointed back at me. Ringo announced into the microphone that he had an illustrious guest in the audience, and pointed to the VIP section behind the audience. "George Martin is here tonight‚" which drew standing applause. Martin had been here for the Cirque premiere the night before, and had stayed for Ringo's show, sitting with Barbara Bach, who waved to the crowd. Ringo gave an emotional "thank you George, for everything."
Ringo and
his All-Starrs are always a refreshing and fun show, because
there are always different musicians in each line-up with
old hits that you would love to hear again, making it
interesting and enjoyable. And in my opinion, you can never
hear "Yellow Submarine" from the Man Himself too many
times.
------- RINGO STARR CONFIRMS 9th ALL STARR SUMMER TOUR 2006, PRODUCED BY HOUSE OF BLUES® (Press release from March 8, 2006) ALL STARRS WILL INCLUDE ROD ARGENT, MARK HUDSON, RICHARD MARX AND BILLY SQUIER WITH SHEILA E AND MARK RIVERA RETURNING Wednesday, March 8, 2006, Los Angeles, CA &endash; This summer is guaranteed to be a little more rocking now that Ringo Starr has confirmed the details for his upcoming 9th All Starr Band. The tour, produced by House of Blues®, will kick off in Canada at Casino Rama on June 14 and end in New York City on July 20 at Radio City Music Hall. The 9th All Starr Band will
feature new All Starr's (in alphabetical order) The All Starr show is "the best 1-800-band on the road," (as Ringo always says), where each of All Starrs take turns singing their greatest hits: "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", "Photograph", "It Don't Come Easy," "Hold Your Head Up," "Don't Mean Nothin," "Free Ride," "The Stroke," "Everybody Wants You," and "Glamorous Life." Ringo and His All Starrs exude the love, joy and phenomenal playing that shine from the Starr at the center. The shows draw fans of all ages and sizes…parents and their kids come to enjoy a summer night out with fantastic music, performed by musicians who love to play. As Ringo recently said in an interview: "I just have a great time, and that's the rhythm of my heart and my soul." The full itinerary will be
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Photos from Ringo Starr and The
Roundheads TV appearance on the CBS Early Show taped Monday,
June 20, 2005 in NYC
They played five songs: It Don't Come Easy, Choose Love, Back off Boogaloo, With a little Help from my friends and Act Naturally
This appearance will air Wednesday 6/29 -on The Early Show on CBS (between 7-9 am EST)
Ringo discusses Choose Love album Press Release from Koch
Records (May 2005) Choose Love - By David Wild Photos by Henry Diltz 2005
Choose Love is full of inspired songs of innocence and experience -- the heartfelt and heartening work of someone who's lived a little and learned a lot. This is rousing, rough and ready rock & roll that lovingly embraces the past, but has its eye very much on our shared future. And it's an album first and foremost about the best choice any of us have -- Love. "What other choice is there?" Starr asks as he sits at home with Mark Hudson. Hudson is one of his key fellow travelers in the journey of the Roundheads, the loose but tight combo of collaborators - Hudson, Steve Dudas, Gary Burr and auxiliary Roundhead Jim Cox -- who have worked with Ringo on his recent run of winning albums. For Starr, love is a theme of profound and enduring importance. "From the beginning, the Beatles were saying `I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and `Love Me Do.' It was all about love and that's still the most powerful message. If you look at the overall picture, the Beatles were about love and what better subject is there really?" Having lost his way somewhere in the first half of the Seventies, Ringo Starr eventually found love with his wife Barbara and found his way back to his love of music in at the start of the Nineties. And now with the Roundheads he rediscovered his rightful place in the world. "I am a band member," he declares. "That's who I am. That's who I want to be. It takes a band - even more than it takes a village - to make music like this. By now, we feel like we know each other's minds, we know where we're going. It takes time - time takes time. The good news is that as we've been making records together a while now, and I'm proud if this album shows growth and progress in terms of playing like a band." "That's what we are - a well-to-do garage band," says Starr says with a grin. "Speak for yourself," Hudson says with a laugh. Though the new album features a few guests, notably Chrissie Hynde on "Don't Hang Up," roots guitarist Robert Randolph on "Fading In, Fading Out" and "Oh My Lord", Billy Preston on "Oh My Lord," Ringo and the Roundheads are once again at the beating heart of Choose Love. "Every time before we start a new album we sit down and think, okay what do we do now? On the last album, RingoRama, we decided to feature the drums - the drumming on that album is unbelievable. Ringo was literally the driving force on that album. This time Ringo wanted to go the other way. He said, "I want it to sound like a band, a little more down and dirty and guitar-driven." And as soon as we got on that page, we started writing that way as well." "This has been a joy in my life working with the guys," Starr says. You can have fun and you can even have that bad day with each other and it's not held against you. So you have the freedom to be who you are and still be together. It's been a remarkable run already, but ten years from now it will be all blues because that will be the only speed I'll be able to play." Until then, Starr is proud
to spread his own good word. "You have to get a lot of
experience to get to the point where you can say `Choose
Love' in an honest way," he says. "Life is filled with ups
and downs, but in the end it's best filled with love -
that's my conclusion. That it's the best choice any of us
have." Here's what Starr and Hudson had to say about all their loving song choices on Choose Love: FADING IN, FADING OUT RINGO: You feel like if you die, the world will end. And actually, it won't. Throughout the album, there's a lot of peace, love and spirituality. So I wrote a line that says, "When I disappear, I hope I've left enough love." That's all that you can really leave and all you really do need. You can leave your money if you want to, and leave the house. But if you've left enough love that's more important I feel." MARK: At one point Ringo wanted to call the album just Love and have every song deal with that concept. But once we got going, things changed. RINGO: It's like with Sgt Pepper - that was going to be "the opera." Then after three tracks, it was like, "Sod it, let's just play." This time we had several possible album titles including One Leg at a Time and Fading In, Fading Out. Ultimately we thought the thing to say to the world is Choose Love. "No matter what you choose/choose love." I think that says it all. GIVE ME BACK THE BEAT MARK: That started with an idea Ringo had to do a drum song using multiple drummers, including Charlie Watts, his son Zak, Jim Keltner and himself. RINGO: They always have guitarists coming on together on record, so I thought why not one for the drummers? That didn't work out for this record, but then "Give Me Back The Beat" became a love song about beat of the heart. And for all the drummers out there, this is the first time I've ever done two complete drum tracks of myself on one song. And for guitarist, check out Steve Dudas' solo. OH MY LORD RINGO: When I wrote "Photograph" and "Back off Boogaloo" I had George to produce me and George was always trying to get into them the words "God" and "Krishna" and I fought it. And now just with the growth within myself, I have no problem with that now. For Oh My Lord," we begin with my demo with me and my little crazy organ. George, bless him, has his "Sweet Lord" - this is mine. I did play the song for Olivia when it was a demo because I feel that George would have loved it. I always say "God" or "Lord" in a spiritual sense, not a religious way. But I'm big enough to say the word now. HARD TO BE TRUE RINGO: We always three guys sitting around and they're the saddest mother-bunch in the world because inside of all of us there's "The dog's dead, the wife's left and the jukebox is broken. Inside, we're all a country song and half of our battle is to pick it up and write a song where we're not sad, where she hasn't left and the dog's fine. MARK: Ringo is playing this old Wurlitzer all over this record. To me, playing the middle eight of "Hard To Be True" there's something that brings to mind "Photograph." This song gives me that same great feeling. SOME PEOPLE RINGO: That's Barbara and I, speaking of love. The songs come out of the atmosphere. MARK: It's a great song about the ying and the yang of relationships. If I may mention your old band, we were talking about the song "You Won't See Me" and playing acoustic guitars. Richie sat down at the drums and started playing the beat for "Some People" and it was that moment the song was really born. Ringo said, "There's got to be a twelve-string on this" and Dudas played another great solo. RINGO: Every album someone gets the Man of The Record badge for being the most valuable player - Steve Dudas is getting it for Choose Love. WHY AM I ALWAYS WRONG? RINGO: I was just having a bad two days with Barbara. You're married for 25 years and you're going to have a few bad days. I just came into the studio one of those days and said, "Why am I always wrong? Let's have a cup of tea." When I came back and Gary had the start of the melody of that song just from that one line. Around us, you have to be careful who says what because suddenly it becomes a song. DON'T HANG UP RINGO: We were in England doing "Don't Hang Up" which is a real story song about two people and a guy in a rock & roll band and we wanted a woman with . . . MARK: Balls RINGO: Balls, Chrissie, if you'll use the expression. My daughter knew Chrissie better than I did. I asked her for Chrissie's number and we invited her to spend the day and see if she'd liked to do it. She was great because she made her part her own. She changed it and made it better. We were very open to her ideas --we're not in the Army here. MARK: I love Ringo's drumming on that. I've produced a lot of people but I've never known the right hand of a drummer to be any greater. Listen to the way he plays the bell and the cymbals. Usually cymbals are considered just a violent instrument just to crash at the top of the chorus. There's finesse to how Richie plays that a lot of those darn kids should listen to and learn from. ME AND YOU RINGO: Our songs happen when they happen. There are no set patterns. It's organic . . . like the food that I eat. MARK: Steve Dudas had the chord changes there and a lyric for a verse. I played it for Ringo and somehow we ended up sitting in a car writing the song from there. Just two romantic guys together in a car pouring their hearts out. SATISFIED RINGO Gary Nicholson had the first verse for that one. It was all about "I won't be satisfied" and yet again I'm always trying to take a turn to the positive. So the last verse is mine where I will be satisfied. That's a great example of going from being the teenager who's never satisfied to a place where you can feel grown up and satisfied. But you have go through a lot of life to get there. MARK: This is also the one when Ringo pulled out some very special guitars and let us play them. RINGO: Three of my great friends gave me guitars and I brought them out for this song and let the three boys play with them. MARK: We switched guitars on every verse so we all got to play them. And Rose Stone - who's been on all our albums - came in with her girls and gave us that great Wall of Sound ending. CHOOSE LOVE RINGO: Love rocks, and that song rocks too. Love doesn't have to be a dirge. Love is up and so is this song. That's the theme of the record and we mention some songs that I love in it. This is our love album. Why not choose love? Name a better choice. And yes, I do sing, "You've got to pay your dues/If you want to sing the blues." If you listen to my albums they all have some illusion to either "It Don't Come Easy" or "Back off Boogaloo." It's somewhere in every one. THE TURNAROUND RINGO: That's telling people when you're down, turn it around. You can get back up again. MARK: "The Turnaround" was built on a jam. We were in the studio after lunch and Steve Dudas had his guitar plugged into Ringo's odd amp. RINGO: I get more odd things than (even) things these days. MARK: Ringo doesn't want the Marshall Amp - he wants the Meatball Amp. On the spot, this groove appeared and this song emerged. Ringo was talking about back in really old days with Rory Storm, the one song he got to sing was "Alley Oop." So at the end of "The Turnaround," Ringo doesn't sing that song, but he lets you know that he has sang it. RINGO: You have to be careful. The last record we borrowed that bit from "Let 'Em In." So I called Paul and said, "I'm doing this, okay?" He said, "Well, call the publishers" I said, "No, I'm calling you." FREE DRINKS RINGO: That's us boys who are over 21 trying to write a disco Ibiza record and it turned into this surf spaghetti western. Because I live in the south of France half the time, I was mentioning places over there. It became one of our traditional travelogue songs. Then Steve Dudas did this "Fistful of Dollars" guitar line and we all cheered. MARK: When I heard that disco beat, I was nervous for a moment. I was like, how are we going to pull this one off? RINGO: "Free Drinks" started with a loop I made in Monoco on an old synth I have there, and it only got loopier, like the song.
Read our review of Choose Love For more Ringo news, visit www.ringostarr.com
Ringo on Good
Morning America (June 2005)
Ringo Starr and the Roundheads played a concert at Irving Plaza in New York City on June 19, 2005
Here is the set list: ATTENTION: SPOILERS It Don't Come Easy You Can't Do That (Gary
Burr) ------ Ringo returns to
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Ringo Art News
(June 2005) Press Release EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION OF RINGO STARR'S ART TO OPEN AT NEW YORK'S POP INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES SUNDAY, JUNE 19-SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2005
Ringo Starr's computer art will make its debut June 19 at the first ever exhibition of his work, exclusively on display at Pop International Galleries located in New York City's Soho district. The show, which was coordinated by Neal Glaser of ArtCelebs, will feature 14 different images, all hand signed by Ringo, and limited to only 100 impressions each. It will open to the public on Sunday, June 19, and launch with a private reception for the artist. Speaking about his art work Ringo said: "I started in the late nineties with my computer art. While I was touring it gave me something to do in all those crazy hotels you have to stay in on the road." Adding, with his trademark wit, "most of the titles for my pieces arrived because on computer you have to call them something, so I have. The easy way to look at it is, if it has a hat on - it will probably be called Hat Man." Neal Glaser first became aware of Ringo's artwork in 1995 when he saw the Discover card which featured one of Ringo's paintings. He was impressed by the "Abstract Face" which he found original, and fun. Neal immediately suggested doing a show of Ringo's work, but was told that there was not interest in doing anything at that time. Persisting over the years, the show has finally come to fruition. After reviewing dozens of images, they narrowed it down to the 14 featured in this upcoming exhibition at Pop International. Pop International, who also represent work by other pop icons and artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Dezo Hoffmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Burton Morris, Francesco Scavullo, Andy Warhol and Ronnie Wood (among many others), is a perfect venue for Ringo's Pop art. Speaking to the nature of pop art Ringo added: "In its way "Pop" art is always changing - like "Pop" artists. It's a natural move like pop music and even Popeye the sailor man." Pop International Galleries is located at 473 West Broadway in New York City. Tel: (212) 533-4262. Fax: (212) 533-6553 The gallery is open 7 days. Monday through Saturday, 10am to 7pm and Sunday 11am to 6pm. All of the artists proceeds will go to benefit the Lotus US Foundation Charity. The objectives of the Foundation are to fund, support, participate in and promote charitable projects aimed at advancing social welfare in diverse areas including, but not limited to: substance abuse, cerebral palsy, brain tumors, cancer, battered women and their children, homelessness and animals in need. More information is available at www.RingoStarrArt.com and www.Artcelebs.com.
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The
sandy beach outside the hotel was a magnificent setting for
concert-goers. In a city where 100 degree heat is
commonplace this time of year, it seemed odd but fitting
that the hotel's famed wave pool actually ran right in front
of the stage, like a moat. For a photographer with aims on
getting some close-up shots of Ringo, though, this seemed
momentarily puzzling--"Was I supposed to take my shoes off
and trudge through the little waves with my camera, to get
close to the stage?" (Answer to that is yes. But I was to
discover that the beer-laden barefoot fans packing the pool
with waving arms was a worse obstacle.)
It
was great to see Hamish up on stage with a Beatle again, as
it's been some years since he toured with Paul McCartney.
Rod Argent's "Hold Your Head Up" was a crowd pleaser that
brought back memories and got everyone singing along. But
Edgar Winter stole the show when he stepped forward to
center stage. After making a joke about the "strap-on" that
he developed, he launched into "Frankenstein" bringing
everyone to their feet with a roar. His white hair flowing
with his stage movements, his presence on stage was amazing.
Doing
the usual non-encore speech, Ringo says, "usually at this
part of the show, everyone runs off stage, you scream, and
then we all come back. Well, we're too old and tired for
that now, so what do you say we DON'T run off, and you yell
and scream anyway?" to which the crowd goes wild. During the
finale, Ringo surprisingly called several VIPS to the stage,
including Jeff Lynne (ELO, George Harrison), Jim Keltner
(John Lennon, drummer), Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon), Dave
Stewart (Platinum Weird/Eurythmics), and one of the
musicians from Paul Revere and the Raiders. 
"'The
Long And Winding Road' is more than a song," Ringo Starr
sings on the title track of his latest album Choose Love.
And one of the most remarkable things about Choose Love is
that this far down that long and winding road, Ringo Starr
has never sounded more excited and engaged by the music he's
making and the message of love that it spreads. 
