![]() Ken from Louisville, KyThis was also the "sustitue" song for Ringo who was first offered an early version of "All Those Years Ago", written by George specifically for Ringo (before John Lennon's murder).I think I'm correct in saying that this was Ringo's last Top 40 chart entry. The album also featured two pretty good McCartney songs, "Attention" and "Private Property." In fact, these songs were better than some of the material McCartney was producing for himself at the time, namely the "Back to the Egg" album. Kevin from Reading, PaThis is one of Ringo's best, from the "Stop and Smell the Roses" album.Ringo said that after this was shot, they took the jacket home. Ken from Louisville, KyAnd yes, that IS Barbara Bach in the video playing the woman in the straight jacket.* Interestingly, his debut record, "Beaucoups of Blues", entered the Top 100 exactly eleven years earlier on November 1st, 1970 it peaked at #87. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 1st 1981, "Wrack My Brain" by Ringo Starr entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79 and five weeks later on December 6th, 1981 it peaked at #38.He had just gone and I wanted to express my love for him. The song is still very poignant for me, and I tried not to do it on the last tour, but I had to do it because it’s a beautiful song and expresses what I felt for the man. We always had a lot of fun in the studio, you know.” - Ringo Rama Radio Hour, 25 March 2003 ![]() And so he would put in all these chords that made me sound I might be a great drummer, but I’m not the best guitarist. ![]() And then I would take it over to George’s and he’d finish 'Photograph.’ And he finished 'It Don’t Come Easy.’Īnd also, you know, I’m not the best guitarist in the world. And I was very good at two verses and a chorus. RS: “Well, you know, George was my good friend. Q: “Why was it so easy for you to write with George on classics like 'It Don’t Come Easy’ and 'Photograph’ so soon after the Beatles split?” And I think the song says everything that I ever want to say.” Sometimes you just go mad and you’ve got to stop and look at what you do and then you do it right. And that way, I - you know, I could use some of his lines in the song itself, never - you know, 'within you, without you’ is his line. So I had to stop everything and say, 'Now, where are we going? Okay. And so it just got too cluttered and too crazy. Oh, and I can say this about Harry Nilsson. Then, oh, well, I can say this about John. And so then I thought, oh, that would be great. And, of course, George had just left us then. It just became natural that it was about the Beatles, in a way. And then I thought, wow, this would be great, after the first verse, that we were brothers through it all. RS: “Well, it started out just as a band. Q" “The song 'Never Without You’ didn’t really start out purely about George, did it?” helped with the closure, I felt, that we all sort of… we had this focus of the show, but we could hang out with each other and, you know, deal with the loss of George, who, you know, I still miss.” Q: “You mentioned 'Never Without You.’ That’s the next song we’re going to hear from Ringo Rama. I don’t really like the tribute - you know, the word 'tribute.’ It’s just to let George know we loved him.” Ringo Starr: “'Never Without You,’ the tribute track to George - or the love track. 'You’ve got me crying, you bugger.’” - Here Comes The Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison (2006) Ringo took the package to his recording studio and sat with his hands behind his head, listening to an unexpected poetry of notes. One reviewer would later describe his beautiful slide-guitar work as ‘sharing a little of his soul… moving musical statement spoke of the musician’s inner peace.’ “When Ringo asked … to compose guitar music for a new song, ‘King of Broken Hearts,’ George put his own heart into it. So it gave George some freedom and it was a bit looser than something that he would do for himself.” - ibid George thought this song would be good for me. I was watching a lot of TV then, as he writes in one of the lyrics in the song. I love the sentiment of ‘Photograph.’ When we did The Concert For George, I told the audience that ‘Photograph’ now has a different meaning just because of the fact that George has left.” - Ringo Starr, liner notes, Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr (2007) “So George taught me C, which was so damn hard. “This next song is called ‘It Don’t Come Easy.’ I wrote this song with the one and only George Harrison.” - Ringo Starr, VH1 Storytellers (1998) Photo by Mal Evans or Tony Bramwell, for The Beatles Book monthly.Ī look at some Harrison-Starkey musical collaborations. George Harrison and Ringo Starr working on “Octopus’s Garden” in the studio, January 1969.
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