Word: ringo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul McCartney issued a sprightly new album, Flowers in the Dirt, on which he collaborated with Elvis Costello, and announced a world tour to begin Sept. 26 in Oslo. And Ringo Starr, fresh from an alcohol rehab, hit the road backed by a peerless band of studio all-stars. Strawberry Fields forever...
STAY AWAKE (A&M). A collection of tunes from Disney films is a bundle of surprises. Suzanne Vega spooks her way through a Mary Poppins ditty; Tom Waits does a mine-shaft version of Heigh Ho; Ringo Starr and Herb Alpert loft When You Wish Upon a Star: a little eccentric but beguiling enough to be more than novelty...
...Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come out of Liverpool since John, Paul, George and Ringo...
...Caine must save the island for the islanders against the designs of the great powers. He aligns himself with the island's only two revolutionaries, and attempts a desperate showdown against the forces of oppression, culminating in a benefit concert at the UN featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Make sense...
...whose title evokes a Vegas-style entertainment complex stuck improbably in a South African "homeland." Jazz (Miles Davis) is on the record. So is folk (Jackson Browne, Raitt), Latin (Ruben Blades) and reggae (Jimmy Cliff), along with the royalty of rock, both domestic (Daryl Hall) and imported (Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr). Van Zandt's original concept for a single and a dance remix has become a mini-LP of material. Among the tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player Ron Carter and Drummer Tony Williams; a free-flowing political, rhythmic stream...