Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan crossed musical paths a number of times. In , Starr fell upon the idea to tour with an ever-changing lineup of fellow musicians, many of whom were given their own moments in the spotlight. John; and Bruce Springsteen saxophonist Clarence Clemons.
Seth Rogovoy is a contributing editor at the Forward, for which he frequently mines popular culture for its hidden Jewish stories. That is the only thing he has in common with Barbara Bach. Home Share 5 Search. Email Facebook Twitter. Give Podcast Subscribe. The same personality that made him the glue that held the Beatles together for so long is what drew other artists to him; the formula was a good one. In addition to recording, Starr was flourishing in other creative directions at this time.
His first directorial effort was a documentary about the band T. Rex, called Born to Boogie. Starr founded his own record label, and continued recording, but as he later admitted, he was drinking and doing drugs to the point that he wasn't able to accomplish much else. In , a year after his divorce from Maureen Cox, he released Ringo's Rotogravure, which included songs written by each of the other Beatles. He had a few minor hits off it.
Other albums followed, without much commercial success. In early , he co-starred in the comedy Caveman with Barbara Bach, and the two soon fell in love, marrying a year later.
It was supposed to include two songs Lennon had offered him, but Starr no longer felt it was appropriate to record them. The decade also brought his fame to a new generation, as he became the narrator of the kids' TV series Thomas and Friends , delighting children who probably didn't know he'd been a member of the most famous band in the world. The show went on to use other famous voices, including George Carlin and Alec Baldwin.
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While he continued to produce numerous solo albums, Starr received some his strongest reviews in years for 's Time Takes Time. Two years later, he reunited with McCartney and Harrison to recreate some of the Beatles' magic. Using a Lennon demo for a song called "Free as a Bird," the trio released the first "new" Beatles single since They also collaborated on the Beatles Anthology project, giving extensive interviews about their time together for a miniseries and CD project.
Another Lennon song, "Real Love," was also reworked and did well on the charts in Two years later, Starr appeared on the VH1 Storytellers television series, sharing his music and experiences as a recording artist, which resulted in an accompanying album. Starr released Liverpool 8 in In , he found himself onstage at the E3 conference with Olivia Harrison George's widow , Ono and McCartney, promoting The Beatles: Rock Band , a new video game that sold over half a million copies in its first month.
Continuing to explore his career as a solo artist, Starr put out Y Not Ringo and P ostcards from Paradise Ringo Starr attends his birthday fan gathering on July 7, in Hollywood, California.
In , Starr showed off his talent for photography. He published Photograph , which featured many never-before-seen, intimate images of the Beatles. According to T he Hollywood Reporter , Starr felt that the photo book could tell the story of his life as a Beatle better than a traditional autobiography.
In April , it was announced that Starr had signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with BMG. However, the first bands he played with in Liverpool made the name part of the attraction. Yet Ringo never was shy about getting up in front of the bright lights.
During early Beatles interviews in America, you can see him jumping in, unsolicited, to answer questions and interject thoughts into the conversation. When The Beatles started making movies, Ringo looked incredibly comfortable in front of the camera. Hips, the man, and he felt we were a danger. I think that the danger was mainly to him and his career. I don't like talking.
It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth. And the genuine fans wrote in saying, you know, "If you are going with her, good luck and I hope you're happy.
I remember the day [son Zak Starkey ] was born. It was the first time I'd felt totally useless. There was [ Maureen Starkey ] having our baby. She kept on crying "Help! I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.
I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play. I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. We were the first generation that didn't go into the army. I missed the call up by, like, 10 months, and so we were allowed, as these teenagers, not to be regimented and turn into these musicians. I'm probably the best rock 'n' roll drummer on earth.
I say that now because I used to be embarrassed to speak up for myself. There's nothing we can do about that. What's more interesting to me is that our records are still coming out. And they're the same records and the new generation gets to hear them, and as far as that's concerned, that's the most important thing to me. The music we make, it's still going on. I bought these Ludwig drums, and in the shop in England, the guy wanted to take the sign out, but I love everything American, the music and the instruments.
So I made him leave the sign on. That's just how it is. The number, yeah, it's high. But I just felt I've got to celebrate it. I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on. I'm not hiding from it, you know. Now I've realized to make the music I like there's no real reason to go to a studio. The other day, we were downloading an Echoplex machine and you just download the damn thing!
I've been through quite a lot of technology, you know, but I have two bits of wood in my hand and I hit those buggers and I love it! My stepdad was great, he taught me about Sarah Vaughan , Billy Eckstine , people like that. That was about all. And now it's divided into 30 categories. Now I don't know one from the other. The '70s wasn't bad. I thought the '80s was all synthesised, even the drums, and there were weird people playing the drums.
We've known Bob [ Bob Dylan ] since the early '60s and if he's playing L. It's just one of those things. He is a giant in my mind. I bought one record once because of the drums, and that was Cozy Cole doing "Topsy".
But all the records I bought were for the whole record. It's not like I was searching out drummers and that. Al Jackson was great, of course. It's always been the whole band and the singer that's really excited me. I had this dream at 13 to play drums, nothing else, play drums. And when I got to play the drums, when I finally got a set when I was nearly 18, I wanted to play with good people and I started playing with the best band at the time, and then the next best band and then the biggest band, the best band of all.
That's how it's always worked for me. I just wanna play, I wanna support the band. I love the band mentality. I love playing with other musicians. I'm not the one who can sit in the back room and practise, but if you can play piano and guitar I'll play with you all night. I don't like it as a solo gig, where you're just banging away. That's why I never did drum solos, there's really no need for them. I don't want to go back anywhere. I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good.
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