Ringo Starr - Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr (CD & DVD)
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Free Music Review: For all Ringo and Beatlemaniacs...
Hit: 5 Stars
Great compilation of songs, including some of Ringo's most popular. Double the fun because it includes a CD and a DVD. Very entertaining.Free Music Review: Ringo Starr
Hit: 5 Stars
This was a gift I got for someone. They just love it! Of course any Beatle fan would love this as a gift.Free Music Review: Ringo's best compilation !
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A top notch compilation of Ringo's best songs from his albums - plus a bonus DVD to boot !Free Music Review: That Boy
Hit: 4 Stars
Through concert stages and studio recordings, Ringo Starr provided the back beat to the most popular band in musical history, The Beatles. And after the band disbanded he pursued a solo career. PHOTOGRAPH: THE VERY BEST OF RINGO includes 20 of his most memorable songs from 1971 to 2005.
The album begins with his most famous single, "Photograph," and ends with the semi-autobiographical, "Fading in and Fading Out." Listeners will hear Ringo's versatile musical tastes from rock and blues, "Back off Boogaloo" to the Nashville-like "Beaucoups of Blues. But one of the touching songs on the album is the tongue-in-cheek, "Never Without You," which is a tribute to George Harrison. Several of the songs included in this collection were collaborations with former Beatles, John, Paul, and George, "It Don't Come Easy" and "I'm the Greatest." In addition, Ringo pays homage to the 1950s and 1960s with Johnny Burnett's "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)," The Platter's "Only You (And you Alone)," and Bruce Channel's "Hey Baby." The anti-drug, "No-No Song," who's melody resembles "Ob la di, Ob la da," is also a part of the selections.
And as an added bonus, this edition of the CD includes a DVD of several of his promotional film clips. It was unfortunate that the comical "Wrack My Brain" video was not included. Nevertheless, the entire package was entertaining and a delight to hear and see.
Free Music Review: Ringo Starr: A Beatle Always
Hit: 4 Stars
The way I look at it, the Beatles were never over. As of 1970, George became a co-equal with John and Paul in the songwriting/singing department and Ringo moved into George's old niche as 'the other Beatles songwriter'. And they just carried on to the present day, losing John and George along the way.
You see, nobody has to listen to the post-1969 John, Paul, George and Ringo as anything other than a new phase of the Beatles. Granted, it would be a more conceptual Beatles, with collaboration as the exception rather than the rule. But think of 'Yesterday', 'Within You Without You', nearly half the 'White Album', 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' and so on--tracks with only one or two Beatles on them. Which was more a Beatles track? 'Mother's Nature's Son' with Paul and no other Beatles aboard, or 'I'm the Greatest', with John, George, Ringo and fifth Beatle Klaus Voorman all aboard? So I say to hell with how the individual Beatles have been packaged over the past 4 decades. Take the 'best of' packages, like this one, download the gems that weren't included, and make up your own post-1969 Beatles albums.
For a little help from someone who spent several years listening through all the possible permuatations and combinations of the best solo-Beatle material, see the book (on Amazon.com) 'Let's Put the Beatles Back Together Again 1970-2010: How to Assemble & Appreciate the 2nd Half of the Beatles' Legacy'.