The tapes from the Beatles' January 1969 Get Back film project captured Starr expressing a wish to make an album of standards. He first considered making a country music album, but then decided to record a collection of old standards that would reflect his mother's favourite songs. His mother Elsie Starkey and stepfather Harry Graves also supported the idea when Starr visited them at their Liverpool home. So I called George Martin and said, "Why don't we take a sentimental journey?" ĭespite his limited songwriting experience, Ringo Starr was encouraged to make a solo album by his Beatles bandmates. And I just thought of all those songs that I was brought up with, all the parties we'd had in Liverpool at our house and all the neighbours' houses. The album was a forerunner to standards collections by artists such as Harry Nilsson and Linda Ronstadt, and to the vogue from the late 1990s onwards for rock artists such as Bryan Ferry, Rod Stewart and Boz Scaggs to embrace big band music. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics and confusing Beatles fans through its choice of music, Sentimental Journey charted inside the top ten in the United Kingdom and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. ![]() The album's impact was compromised by Paul McCartney's refusal to delay the release of his solo debut, McCartney, and by McCartney then publicly announcing the group's break-up. The cover of the album shows Starr in front of a pub in the Dingle area of Liverpool, where he grew up. Starr made a promotional film for the song " Sentimental Journey", in which he performed with an orchestra and dancers at the Talk of the Town nightclub. He recruited George Martin to produce the sessions and used different musical arrangers for each song. Starr began recording Sentimental Journey in London in October 1969, in response to Lennon's private announcement that he was leaving the Beatles. As a departure from the experimental quality that had characterised solo LPs by George Harrison and John Lennon since 1968, it was the first studio album by an individual Beatle to embrace a popular music form. The album is a collection of pre-rock 'n' roll standards that Starr recalled from his childhood in Liverpool. It was released by Apple Records in March 1970 as the Beatles were breaking up. Sentimental Journey is the debut solo album by English rock musician Ringo Starr. It still happens sometimes.EMI, Olympic, Wessex Sound, De Lane Lea, Trident and Morgan, London A&M, Los Angeles “I’m really, really, really blessed to be in this family that I’m in that came along with my wife, and I still get in the studio, and I’ll be playing guitar, and I’ll look over and go, ‘That’s fuckiing Ringo Starr.’ I don’t believe it. “He’s my brother-in-law, and he wants to involve me in making music, and what am I gonna say ‘no?'” said Walsh. Walsh briefly joined the former Beatle’s All-Starr band in 1989, playing with them on and off since, and married Starr’s wife’s sister, Marjorie Bach, in 2008. Produced entirely by Walsh, the musician also wrote and co-wrote six tracks on the album for Starr (credited by his real name Richard Starkey as a co-writer), including “Hopeless,” “Alibi,” “Be My Baby,” “Going Down,” “Everybody’s in a Hurry But Me,” along with late The Who bassist John Entwistle and Eric Clapton, and “In My Car.” Though Walsh and Ringo Starr first met in the mid-’70s during a jam session, they wouldn’t start collaborating until the early 1980s on Starr’s solo efforts, beginning with his ninth album, Old Wave. Written by Joe Walsh, Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr), Kim Goody, Mo Foster Here are five songs Walsh had a hand in writing for the two artists from the early ’80s through the late 2010s. Walsh also wrote and produced for other artists, specifically with his All-Starr bandmate (and brother-in-law) Ringo Starr, and Steve Winwood.
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