Ringo

iTunes Review

Ringo Starr’s third solo album was the one to finally put him back in the proper public eye in the proper context. No longer trying out sentimental pop standards or country-western fare, Ringo is joined here with extensive help from his incredible list of important and influential friends. John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Marc Bolan, Harry Nilsson, Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Keyes, Steve Cropper, Martha Reeves, Merry Clayton, Linda McCartney, the Band, and Jim Keltner all guest, with Lennon contributing the album’s opening Beatlesque track “I’m the Greatest,” McCartney offering the likeable “Six O’Clock,” and the George Harrison co-write of “Photograph” becoming the album’s most substantial hit. Ringo hams it up with Johnny Burnette’s “You’re Sixteen You’re Beautiful (And You’re Mine)” and even gets a tad serious for Randy Newman’s “Have You Seen My Baby” that features T. Rex’s Marc Bolan on guitar. The reissue includes Ringo’s other hits from the era, including “It Don’t Come Easy” and the Beatle-centric “Early 1970.”