Ringo!

Only six months since the last one, I’m back again to I am the Eggpod, the Beatles podcast. In earlier episodes, I talked about Let It Be and about Back to the Egg. This time we’re talking about Ringo the 1973 solo album by Ringo Starr and widely considered his best.

The album’s great. It features what I still think is one of the all-time great Beatles solo singles ‘Photograph’, cowritten with George Harrison and given a spectacular arrangement by Jack Nitzsche, the ‘wall of sound’ arranger for Phil Spector. Other well-known highlights include ‘I’m the Greatest’ written by John. Lennon who plays piano on it alongside George Harrison on guitar, making it a 75% Beatles reunion (there’s a Paul McCartney composition on the second side). There’s a cute cover of the Johnny Burnette song ‘You’re Sixteen’ and the novelty dance single ‘Oh My My’, alongside lesser known gems like ‘You and Me (Babe)’ another Harrison song.

Anyway, Chris Shaw and I discuss the record, its highs and (occasional) lows, with great pleasure and I hope some insight. You can get the podcast from all the usual places or listen to it directly here:

• I am the Eggpod - Ringo