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...nearly as a Beatle could, George Harrison led the life of an invisible man. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were hailed as genius pop composers. Ringo Starr, the catalyst who served as a human buffer between conflicting egos, was constantly stirring affectionate chuckles. George was the quiet, apparently dependent...
...originals, one Bob Dylan original, and one joint effort, All Things Must Pass is an expressive, classily executed personal statement that should surprise many, confound a few and please millions. It is not just that George has surpassed all the individual disks issued to date by Paul, John and Ringo. Both musically and philosophically, he has produced one of the outstanding rock albums in years...
...Ringo in Nashville? The idea seems as logical as Mick Jagger at Glyndebourne. In truth, Ringo poses no immediate threat to such country greats as Eddy Arnold or Johnny Cash. Yet his straightforward, unadorned singing style-customarily sure death in the quasi-Baroque world of rock-turns out to be just the thing for the classic country songs devoted to simple words, gentle irony and love gone haywire. In a song called Silent Homecoming, Ringo does emulate deep-throated Cash a bit too much. His baritone is occasionally too beery. But his cornhusky mastery of the album's title...
Corkscrew Grin. Ringo's choice of mentor and producer for his Nashville sessions was expert: Steel Guitarist Pete Drake, who not only lined up 13 of the best Nashville sidemen in town, but provided Ringo with a well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...
Whatever the success of Beaucoups of Blues, Ringo stands little chance of losing the affection of the millions of Beatles fans for whom he has always been something of a sentimental favorite. Who could forget the A-frame eyes, the cockney nose, the corkscrew grin or the way he had-in a moment of percussive rapture-of smiling sideways like Lauren Bacall? There was also something about him of the sad clown who knew he was only a party to greatness, not its originator. "I do sometimes feel out of it," he once said, "sitting there on the drums, only...