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Old 04-15-2015, 08:29 PM
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As a member of the Beatles, you would expect ringo to have a top ten album. Ringo's new album "Postcards from Paradise" sold about 7000 copies in it's first week debuting at number #99 on the Billboard 200. That's really low.

My favorites from the album are "Rory and the Hurricanes" (co-written with Dave Stewart), "Bridges" (co-written with Joe Walsh), "Not Looking Back", "Postcards from Paradise", and "Confirmation". "Right Side of the Road" and "Island In The Sun" are not bad either.

For such a good album, it sold so poorly for Ringo. Anyone here besides me buy it?
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Old 04-16-2015, 01:07 AM
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I feel bad for Ringo. He is such a nice guy and quite a character. I've seen a couple of his TV performances, which I thought were great. He still exudes a youthful charm.

Of the Beatles solo work, I've been a completest with Paul. With John and George I just have a few signature albums. I think I have just one of Ringo's. (My collection, sadly, is currently thousands of miles away from me).

For me, his solo career is somewhat of an after-thought. I really liked his songs in the 1970s . "It Don't Come Easy" is a great song. I should give his work more attention. First off I will buy his new album. Those sales numbers are embarrassingly disastrous.
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. Those sales numbers are embarrassingly disastrous.
Remember when Mick had a solo career(and RCA dumped him)?
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Paul McCartney Inducts Ringo Starr Into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
by Annie Zaleski April 19, 2015 1:06 AM


Ringo Starr has learned many things in his decades-long musical career, but during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, he gave his top tip for musicians in a band: “If you fart, own up.”
The affable Beatles drummer — the last member of the band to get into the Hall as a solo artist — disclosed that nugget of wisdom and plenty of other gems from the past. In fact, his speech was heavy on memories from his time with the Beatles.
For instance, he recalled receiving the call from Beatles manager Brian Epstein, asking him to join the band. “And I said, ‘Well, when do you want me to join?’” Starr recalled. “Tonight,” Epstein replied. “I can’t do that,” Starr said he replied. “I’ve got a job — I’ll come Saturday.”
When he did join the band, however, he had an immediate influence. “I showed them some clubs that they would not be aware of,” Starr said of his bandmates. “I was sort of the cause of their downfall.”
That wasn’t obvious from fellow Beatle Paul McCartney‘s opening speech, which lovingly recalled his bandmate’s talents and demeanor. Starr was a “professional” because he had a beard and a suit, and would sit at the bar drinking a “boubon and 7.”
McCartney’s recollection of the first time Starr played with the rest of the Beatles was more poignant. “Most of the drummers couldn’t nail the drum part,” he said. “It was a little bit difficult to do, but Ringo nailed it.
“I remember the moment, standing there and looking at John [Lennon] and looking at George [Harrison] and the look on our faces was … f—ing … what is this? And that was the moment, really, that was the beginning of the Beatles.”
McCartney was just as sentimental recalling Starr’s childhood. “He was born in Liverpool at a very early age, and he had a hard childhood,” he said. “Real hard childhood. But he had a beautiful mum, and a lovely stepdad. Both of them had real big hearts, beautiful people and they loved music.
“So at some point during this difficult childhood, Ringo got a drum. Ringo got a drum! And that was it, he was now a drummer.”
Starr returned the favor and started his speech: “My name is Ringo and I play drums! I want to thank Paul for all of those great things he told us. Some of them were true.” (Later in the speech, he got his revenge — when McCartney jokingly went up to him and accused him of talking too long, Starr shot back: “After the things I’ve sat through tonight, blah blah blah … I’ve got some stories!”)
In the end, however, Starr was sentimental about his career, especially with the Beatles. “It’s been an incredible journey for me with these three guys, who wrote these songs.”


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Yoko Ono Praises Ringo Starr as the “Most Influential Beatle”
by Dave Lifton April 19, 2015 1:16 PM


Ringo Starr might have been the last Beatle to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo act, but according to one close associate, he was the “most influential” member of the group. The author of those words? Yoko Ono, John Lennon‘s widow.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, she admitted that “[n]o one is probably going to believe it,” but she backed up her claim by citing his perpetually easy-going manner as the reason for his enduring popularity. “John would go up and down and all that,” she said, “but Ringo was always just very gentle [...] He just sort of embodies peace and love.
Ono was thrilled for Starr to be honored so many years after the others were inducted as solo acts, adding that “means so much to all of us in the Beatle family” and that “[i]t would have been better if George [Harrison] and John were here, too.
But like many others, she was surprised that it took so long. “For some reason John got it, then George got it, then Paul [McCartney] got it,” she continued. “So why didn’t they think about Ringo?
Starr entered the hall last night (April 18), with Paul McCartney speaking about what it was like when Starr replaced Pete Best on the eve of their first session with Parlophone in 1962. “I remember the moment, standing there and looking at John and looking at George and the look on our faces was … f—ing … what is this? And that was the moment, really, that was the beginning of the Beatles.


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