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Ringo Starr: After the Beatles
After the breakup of the Beatles Starr scored hit singles with "It Don't Come Easy" and "Back Off Boogaloo", and participated in Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh.
In 1973 the
"Ringo" album came out, lushly produced by Richard Perry and with participation by all three former bandmates on different tracks. It was a major triumph and Starr unexpectedly became the most commercially successful ex-Beatle at that time. The
Goodnight Vienna album followed the next year and was also successful. Hits and notable tracks from these two collections included "Photograph" (co-written by Harrison), "You're Sixteen", "I'm the Greatest" (written by Lennon), "Only You", and the "No No Song".
Starr's recording career subsequently diminished in impact, although he continued to sporadically release albums. However beginning in 1989 he became a visible presence on the summer touring scene. He organized a series of popular concert tours called Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, teaming each time with well-known musicians from various different rock eras. The format of the concerts has Ringo singing a couple of his Beatles or solo songs, then each of the other musicians taking a turn to sing one of their songs with Ringo behind the drums, then Ringo singing a couple more, then another go around, and so on. In this way Ringo is relieved from having to carry the full burden of the show and the audience gets to hear a variety of music. The eighth such All-Starr Band tour took place in 2003.
Starr has acted in several films such as Candy
(1968), The Magic Christian (1969) (alongside
Peter Sellers), Son of Dracula
(1974) and Caveman (1980). He starred as Larry the dwarf in
Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1971). He was especially well-received in the British film
That'll Be the Day (1973) where he co-starred as a Teddy boy.
In 1984, he narrated on the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
and portrayed the character Mr. Conductor on that program's American spinoff Shining Time Station, which debuted in 1989. In 1991, he appeared as himself on the cartoon The Simpsons.
In January of 2005, it was announced that comic book creator Stan Lee would be working with Starr to produce a new animated musical superhero based on Starr.
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