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...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 two albums serve only to reinforce our previous picture of him: lovable, but (with the exception of his drumming) a thoroughly inept musical personality. His first release. Sentimental Journey, featured the title tune and eleven other oldies, such as "Night and Day," "Stardust," and "Bye Bye Blackbird," all sung off-key and with a remarkable lack of expressiveness, against a background of lush 1940s Big Band arrangements. The total effect of the record is to make you realize what a great singer Frank Sinatra is within that genre. Ringo's singing is a good standard by which...
...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...
Though out on his own, George has some illustrious company. His co-producer is Phil Spector, the Hector Berlioz of rock, with a genius for the complicated aural mix and a weakness for the overblown style-a weakness this time kept under control. Ringo plays on the album, and so do Nashville's Pete Drake and England's Eric Clapton. Identified in the credits as the George O'Hara-Smith Singers is a choir of Beat-le-sounding experts. That is Harrison's little joke. All the voices are George's, carefully overdubbed...
...Born. To Ringo Starr, 30, Beatle drummer now making it on his own as a country-and-western blues singer, and Maureen Cox Starr, 24, onetime Liverpool hairdresser: their third child, first daughter, Lee; in London...