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This Ringo Starr website is by and for fans of the world's greatest Rock 'N' Roll drummer.Ringo is a professional musician , motion picture and television actor, and songwriter. He ... is a painter and photographer, shoots a good game of pool and plays a decent game of chess. Loved by fans everywhere, this true renaissance man helped three friends gain fame and fortune as The Beatles. Ringo's career began before he joined The Beatles and helped facilitate their rise to fame. His career continues to flourish, as you will see here. Thank you for visiting.
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Since beginning his career in the 1960s with The Beatles, Ringo Starr has been one of the world's brightest musical luminaries. Starr has enjoyed a successful and dynamic solo career as a singer, songwriter and drummer, an active musical collaborator, and as an actor. Drawing inspiration from classic blues, soul, country, honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll, Starr continues to play an important role in modern music with his solo recording and touring. His last studio album, Choose Love, was released in 2005.
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For a Beatle, Ringo Starr has had a relatively quiet latter-day solo career. After salvaging his tattered reputation in 1992 with Time Takes Time -- his first album in nearly a decade and his first in nearly 20 years to serve his legend well -- Starr settled into touring regularly with his ever-changing All-Starr Band, documenting almost every tour with a live album, then turning out a new studio album every three or four years. After Time Takes Time, all these albums were recorded in collaboration with Mark Hudson, best known as one of the '70s popsters the Hudson Brothers but ... an L.A. sessionman who slowly became Ringo's right-hand man. Starr's albums with Hudson never grabbed much attention outside the Beatles hardcore -- unlike Time Takes Time, they were rarely studded with stars and once he decamped from the majors to the indie Koch in 2003, they never received much of a marketing push, either, so they played solely to the devoted, who were always satisfied by the happily Beatlesque music Starr made with Hudson. This collaboration continued into 2007 as the duo embarked on what would become the Liverpool 8 album, but they had a falling out in the final stages of recording, with former Eurythmic David A. Stewart brought in at the last minute to polish up the album and collaborate on its title song. Stewart helps give Liverpool 8 the gloss the album needs as it's not only Ringo's first major-label album in five years, it's his homecoming to Capitol Records, the label that released the Beatles albums and Starr's first, best solo albums (highlights from which dominated the 2007 hits comp Photograph, released a matter of months before Liverpool 8).
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Ringo Starr has a new studio album in the works called Liverpool 8. It will be released via Capitol/EMI in the US and Parlophone in the UK on January 15th on CD, digital download, and as a USB wristband! That's right, you will be able to wear the album with pride. The follow-up to 2005's Choose Love marks his return to EMI after leaving the label in 1975, following the end of The Beatles recording contract with them. MORE
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In celebration of this year's landmark 50th season, former Beatle Ringo Starr will again serve as an honorary Santa tracker. Starr will provide the update of Santa's progress in Great Britain, just one of the two dozen stops that will be recorded by the Santa Cams. Santa's journey - which begins in the North Pole and ends in the Hawaiian Islands - includes visits to Moscow; New York; and Reindeer Lake, Canada. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" Web site is available in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Other volunteer organizations involved in this holiday effort include: America Online, Akamai, ICG Communications, 24-7 Web Studio, MCI, and Globelink Language and Cultural Services.
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Ringo Starr walked off the set of "Live With Regis and Kelly" yesterday rather than cut short one of his songs. The former Beatle planned to perform a song from his new album with fellow rocker Dave Stewart. However, due to miscommunication between his publicist, Elizabeth Freund, and the musical director, Starr (inset) didn't realize the performance had to be 2 1/2 minutes or less, Freund said. When told that the performance had to be shortened, Freund said Starr tried to cut about a minute of the song's 4-minute, 15-second length, down to 3 minutes and 30 seconds. However, according to Freund, producer Michael Gelman said it had to be less than 3 minutes. "We offered to cut back our chat time and asked them to fade or go to commercial.
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