Written by Lennon and McCartney, released on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. The song was written for and sung byRingo Starr, as the character “Billy Shears”. It was briefly called “Bad Finger Boogie” (later the inspiration for the band nameBadfinger), supposedly beca...
" Ringo Starr declared in announcing his upcoming studio album,Look Up. Set to drop on Jan. 10, the LP is Starr's first full-length release in six years, and features 11 original songs produced and co-written byT-Bone Burnett. "I've always loved country music," Starr shared in a sta...
but later realized that it meant so much more. While it was heralded as a great love song when it was released, McCain has stated that it is a heartbreak song rather than a happy one. He never intended for it to be sung at weddings. Instead, it was an admission to himself that he...
After a series of groups, including the Eddie Miles Band, Starr debuted with the Raving Texans, a backing band for local singer Rory Storm that evolved into the Hurricanes. During this period, Starkey became known as Ringo Starr (in honor of both his rings and his emerging star power), ev...
woogie style similar to later Chuck Berry classics like “Johnny B. Goode” and “Carol.”Harrison’s vocal delivery varies from the original as well,singing it in a more ‘in the pocket’ fashion (like “Johnny B. Goode”) instead of the looser rhythm sung by Berry himself on the ...
SONG SUNG BLUE by Neil Diamond TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose PRECIOUS AND FEW by Climax ROCKIN’ ROBIN byMichael Jackson FAMILY AFFAIR by Sly & the Family Stone DOWN BY THE LAZY RIVER by The Osmonds
There was a famous version by Frank Sinatra, while the one Ringo Starr cut for his album Sentimental Journey was arranged by Quincy Jones. Que Será, Será (The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956) “Que Será, Será” was sung by Doris Day in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew ...
. Just after the engineer anounces "take 17," Paul counts down the song and sings the introductory line which still includes the line "top of the hill / where I stop and I turn and I give you a pill," which indicates that the singer still hadn't decided which lyrics should be sung...
country rock and soft rock. "Take It to the Limit" - from their fourth LP,One of These Nights, on which they further swerved into heavier rock music - became one of their signature tunes, sung and cowritten by bassistRandy Meisner, who quickly became disinterested in performing it every ...
comes with a new energized glow. The result was the band's first platinum album, their highest-charting studio LP at that point and home to their biggest single, the Top 10 ballad "Beth," sung and co-written by drummer Peter Criss. The start of a new era....