Word: ringo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original superstars are doing, even in their decline. The Stones, having slowed down since the old days, are in between albums at the moment. Harrison's upcoming Bangla Desh concert album will, by all indications, be a monster. Paul McCartney's last album and single were unredeemable trash. Ringo's single. "It Don't Come Easy," was unexpectedly as good as anything the ex-Beatles have done since their split, but he seems at present to be abandoning his singing career and returning to drumming and acting. (You can catch him starring as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa...
...Their League. The book is an angry, sometimes self-righteous attack on the "incredible racism," "dehumanizing conditions" and "violence and sadism" of pro football. Sparing no one, Meggyesy rails against coaches, trainers, who "do more dealing in drugs than the average junkie," and players, one of whom (Jim Ringo, former All-League center for Lombardi's Green Bay Packers) supposedly told Meggyesy in all seriousness that "in football the Commies are on one side of the ball and we're on the other...
...suit to dissolve the Apple Corps is carrying the Beatles' breakup to new levels of dissonance. In his deposition, Ringo Starr called Paul McCartney, who brought the suit, "a spoiled child" and described a row about the release date of the Beatles album Let It Be and that of the solo album, McCartney. "To my dismay, he went completely out of control," said Ringo, "shouting at me, pointing his finger toward my face, shouting 'I'll finish you now!' and 'You'll pay!' " Said John Lennon: "From our earliest days in Liverpool, George...
...spiritual finality of Lennon's musical utterance makes it clear that McCartney's suit to dissolve the Beatles, though it could drag on legally for years, is nothing more than a formality. Still, McCartney has a fiscal fight on his hands. The main reason is that John, Ringo and George Harrison and Apple Manager Allen Klein realize that to break up the partnership they would have to liquidate all their assets (estimated at $100 million) and run the risk of a breathtaking British capital-gains tax. McCartney is willing to chance it because he apparently feels that...
...Ringo's second effort-effort seems the most appropriate word-a country record entitled Beaucoups of Blues, is a vast improvement. The songs (none of them written by Ringo himself) are pretty good, the arrangements are tight, and the Nashville sidemen are, at the worst, competent. It's just that you can't help wishing all the time that Ringo would shut up. (The great rock voice that Ringo had on the early albums, on songs like "Honey Don't" and "Boys," seems to have disappeared with his tonsillectomy...