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HOLLYWOOD,
Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 15 (January 14
internationally), Ringo Starr will release Liverpool 8, his
first new album with Capitol/EMI since 1974's Goodnight Vienna.
Liverpool 8 will be available worldwide on CD and digitally, and
the album's title track will debut as a digital single on
December 4. Starr will launch the album with a hometown
performance on January 12 to commence Liverpool's 2008 Capital
of Culture celebrations.
Liverpool 8,
also the title of the album's upbeat, vibrant lead track,
"refers to the section of Liverpool where I used to live,"
explains Ringo. "The song was actually Dave Stewart's idea, as a
mini autobiographical travelogue: 'I was a sailor first ... '
and then, 'Liverpool I left you' -- because I did. 'but I never
let you down,' which is true."
Although Starr
and Stewart have known each other for years, this is the first
time they have collaborated. It began when Dave asked Ringo to
lay down some drums on a track Stewart had done with George
Harrison. "After I did the drums I asked Dave to add some
guitars to my album, which Mark Hudson and I were working on at
Mark's Whatinthewhathe? Studio in LA. After Mark and I parted
ways, Dave and I took over producing the record," Starr said.
Then added in his trademark wit, "and that's why the credits
say: Produced by Ringo Starr and Mark Hudson and Over-produced
by Ringo Starr and Dave Stewart."
Liverpool 8's 12
original tracks were all co-written by Starr and were recorded
in England and in California. "The writing of the records is
always the same," Ringo explains, "it's the same group of guys
and we all sit together and write about what's happening." That
"group of guys" who joined Starr on the album's songwriting and
recording are (in alphabetical order): Gary Burr, Steve Dudas,
Mark Hudson, Sean Hurley, Zac Rae, and Dave Stewart.
Since beginning
his career in the 1960s with The Beatles, Ringo Starr has been
one of the world's brightest musical luminaries. Starr has
enjoyed a successful and dynamic solo career as a singer,
songwriter and drummer, an active musical collaborator, and as
an actor. Drawing inspiration from classic blues, soul, country,
honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll, Starr continues to play an
important role in modern music with his solo recording and
touring. His last studio album, Choose Love, was released in
2005.
Ringo has said
that as time goes on there is more and more of his personality
in his music, and the songs on Liverpool 8 feel personal.
Starr's candor, wit and soul are evident in the lyrics and the
heartbeat of every song; I always followed my heart and I never
missed a beat. Peace and love are Ringo Starr's primary life
beats, and Liverpool 8 propels this universal message in each of
its evocative songs, which are imbued with joy, insight,
reflection and wisdom from the music icon the world knows and
loves simply as 'Ringo.'
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