“There was a time he was lost… his albums were a disaster,” Cuesta said. “Ringo is your best mate, the good guy,” Cuesta told AFP.Īfter the break-up of the Beatles half a century ago, his own band proved the saving of Ringo who had struggled to adapt. The group is sprinkled with greats such as Joe Walsh, of the Eagles, and Steve Lukather from Toto who provide a musical platform for Ringo to belt out “Yellow Submarine” among other all-time Beatles favorites. Ringo Starr joue d’un autre instrument sur la chanson des Beatles P.S. Meanwhile, if COVID-19 permits, Ringo will be on a US tour in June 2021 fronting his “All Starr Band”. “McCartney is aging like nobility by continuing to turn out albums,” said Cuesta. The result is a fine surprise as were the albums earlier this year of Bob Dylan, aged 79, and Bruce Springsteen 71. “I had no idea this would end up as an album,” he said. “It was about making music for yourself rather than making music that has to do a job. “Each day I’d start recording with the instrument I wrote the song on and then gradually layer it all up, it was a lot of fun. One ex-Beatle album of little interest to anyone under 60, the other perhaps only of appeal to those over that age.“I had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track and then when it was done I thought what will I do next? And another reflective tribute to his childhood with In Liverpool. Still, he and friends - among them jazz bassist Charlie Haden (on Buddy Holly's Think it Over), Joe Walsh, co-writers Glen Ballard, longtime pal Vinnie Poncia, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Stewart and others - enjoy themselves on covers ( Rock Island Line) and vocally undemanding originals. Now up to his 16th solo album (when did you ever count?) he is surviving by the same formula which gave him early hits like It Don't Come Easy, Back off Boogaloo and You're Sixteen: slather the songs in multi-tracking and backing vocals to cover his shortcomings. Ringo's first solo album Sentimental Journey was a heavily orchestrated collection of standards like Night and Day, Stardust and Whispering Grass. McCartney isn't the first ex-Beatle to have ambled through his past. You just wish it had all been low-light, up-close slo-mo ballads, and upbeat nostalgia like Ac-cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive had been relegated. So this is McCartney fulfilling another goal and, although utterly irrelevant in contemporary music and possibly even to most of his ageing audience, he acquits himself exceptionally well in places. Ringo Starr has released a new song featuring a slew of all-star guests, Here’s to the Nights, from his upcoming EP Zoom In, set to arrive March 19th, 2021. McCartney also includes the often forgotten intros these old songs had: Bye Bye Blackbird doesn't start with 'Pack up all my care and woe'.

After being in each other’s bubble for nearly a decade, the ‘Fab Four’ had started to see what else was out there besides themselves and explored new sonic territory. Naturally, when The Beatles broke up, every member went in their own separate artistic direction. The quiet ballads therefore - often soaked in romance and nostalgia - come out best: Home, More I Cannot Wish You (written by Frank Loesser whose publishing Macca owns) and Irving Berlin's Always are shamelessly wistful, late-night reveries, and McCartney's original My Valentine - written for his new wife - fits in seamlessly as a newly minted classic jazz ballad. The Paul McCartney album that Ringo Starr hated. Kisses on the Bottom - the title from a line in a 1930s' Fats Waller song Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter which he covers here - is McCartney going back to the music of his parents' generation, in some instances songs he heard as a kid round the family piano at Christmas.īut - immaculately produced by Tommy LiPuma (Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole), partially recorded in the famous Capitol Studios in Los Angeles where Sinatra and others worked, with Diana Krall and her group, guest Eric Clapton, and the London Symphony orchestrated and arranged by expat Kiwi Alan Broadbent and Johnny Mandel - this is far from a boozy knees-up around the ol' joanna in Liverpool.Įven the two Waller songs (the other the cheery My Very Good Friend the Milkman) are given poised readings, which is the tone here. If they did, these would confirm McCartney and Starr's irrelevance, the McCartney album especially. Not that many care, few today will be listening.

It's a shame the most interesting Beatles at the time of their 1970 break-up - Lennon and Harrison - are no longer with us, because the post-Beatles legacy is carried into the second decade of the 21st century by these two albums. New solo albums by former Beatles Paul McCartney (pictured) and Ringo Starr unfortunately confirm their irrelevance in the music industry today.

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