Results for Ringo StarrRichard Starkey was a popular Merseyside, Liverpool drummer who didn't know he was in the market for a new band at the exact moment the Beatles were seriously in the market for a new drummer. Pete Best had been the Beatles' drummer for the now-famous Hamburg gigs but was unceremoniously booted from the band in '62 for reasons still unconfirmed and barely healed, and Starr, playing with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, joined that September in time to record the Beatle's first single, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You." With that record and the one that followed, "Please, Please Me," the Beatles was launched and everyone on board went galactic. Starr was an inventive drummer and acceptable singer who was perceived to be the most grounded, sensitive, funny and amiable of the Fab Four. His look was unique and his antics confined to the drum set, and when the Beatles disbanded he set off on his own to develop a career. The seventies saw the lion's share of his work, including his first two albums Sentimental Journey and Beaucoups of Blues and '73's Ringo, an album that established his format of including musician friends in the mix. Old Wave in '83 was an unfortunate match of his vocal skills with the material, but 1990 saw a comfortable outing in All-Starr Band, the tour album of his now dangerously-close-to-retro-star friends MC'd by Starr. Vertical Man in '98 included old and new friends, and I Wanna Be Santa in '99 was as close as the Beatles got to a Christmas album. The All-Starr Band has enjoyed many incarnations and tours in the 21st century, playing to fan-packed venues and still-screaming ladies. The bangs are long gone, but for Starr, the bang is "... playing as a band, playing drums, playing in front of an audience... that's the drug of it."...more
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by David MacFadden-Elliott•April 16, 2008•
When A Ghost is Born was released, the tendency of critics was, naturally, to compare it to Wilco’s previous effort, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), the mythic record that was sold twice
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by Harry Doherty•March 12, 2008•
The concept album, contemptuously rejected by many critics as the great bore of rock, has returned, and this work of producer Alan Parsons, supported by a cast of hundreds, will doubtlessly meet the same condemnation. But Parsons pleads: "Don't judge this book by its cover."
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by Denise Sullivan•March 12, 2008•
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by Steve Matteo•March 5, 2008•
New Jersey is famous for being the spawning ground of two musical icons: Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. Also hailing from New Jersey is the Smithereens, a group that, while not having achieved as much notoriety or hit records as the aforementioned legends
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by The Editors•February 27, 2008•
It’s that time again… Noise Pop time! The best thing about this festival is that when you really begin to dig through the schedule you realize that there are talented, up-and-coming bands to be experienced each and every night. That’s what this festival is all about: the unknown… even if there are a slew of excellent mid-level bands to see.
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Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band
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2008-06-19 |
Niagara Falls - Casino Avalon Ballroom At Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort
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Niagara Falls, ON
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2008-06-20 |
Niagara Falls - Casino Avalon Ballroom At Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort
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2008-06-21 |
Bethel Woods Center For the Arts
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Bethel, NY
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2008-06-22 |
Mohegan Sun Casino
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Uncasville, CT
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2008-06-24 |
Radio City Music Hall
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2008-06-25 |
Bank Of America Pavilion
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Boston, MA
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2008-06-27 |
PNC Bank Arts Center
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Holmdel, NJ
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2008-06-28 |
Trump Taj Mahal - Mark G. Etess Arena
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Atlantic City, NJ
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2008-06-29 |
Capital One Bank Theatre at Westbury
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Westbury, NY
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2008-07-02 |
Ruth Eckerd Hall
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Clearwater, FL
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2/11/2008
i didnt get to see grin until '72 or '73 in new york.seeing any new act was always what i went to shows for. grin got a...
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10/13/2007
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hvy2nz's responses IN CAPS to THE led zep hate monger:
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7/28/2007
I just wanted to say what a fantastic array of concerts the Vault contains. I was just listening to Emmlou Harris at...
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6/21/2007
Well Peter my response is not from listening to some old bootleg lp's, I was there.The first time was in 1969 at the...
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6/4/2007
[quote user="Trane Francks"]I just tried to buy the latest featured Ringo Starr and his All-Star Band show [url]http:/...
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