Vertical Man

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Vertical Man
Ringo Starr's studio album

Publication
(s)

June 16, 1998 ( US ) ,
0August 3, 1998 ( UK )

Label (s) Mercury

Format (s)

CD , MC

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

13

running time

51 min 48 s

occupation
  • Steve Dudas - electric bass, guitar
  • Jeff Baxter - Pedal Steel Guitar
  • Jim Cox - organ, Wurlitzer piano, saxophone and cello synthesizer
  • Scott Gordon - harmonica, percussion
  • Steve Cropper - guitar
  • Dean Grakal,
    Scott Gordon - clapping hands
  • Rose Stone,
    Lisa Banks,
    Ollie Woodson,
    Howard McCrary,
    Christina Rasch,
    Barbara Bach Starkey,
    Nils Lofgren,
    Van Dyke Parks ,
    Lady Marjorie Rufus-Iasaacs,
    Lee Starkey,
    Christian Phillippe Quilici,
    Dave Gibbs,
    Sarah Hudson,
    Barbara Vander Linde,
    John Goodwin - backing vocals

production

  • Mark Hudson,
  • Ringo Starr

Studio (s)

  • Whatinthewhatthe? Studios
  • A&M Studios
  • The Village Recorders - Los Angeles, USA
  • The Mill - Sussex, UK
  • AIR Studios
  • Abbey Road Studios - London, United Kingdom
  • Friars Park Studio, Henley-on-Thames (FPSHOT) - Oxfordshire United Kingdom
  • Sam Hook End Studios - UK
chronology
Ringo Starr and His Third All-Starr Band Volume 1
1997 		Vertical Man VH1 Storytellers
1998

Vertical Man is the 16th album or the eleventh studio album by Ringo Starr after the Beatles split up . It was released in the UK on August 3, 1998 (USA: June 16, 1998).

History of origin

After the release of his last studio album Time Takes Time in June 1992, the duet My Little Grass Shack appeared on Leon Redbone's album Whistling in the Wind in April 1994 . In May 1995, another duet was released on the compilation album For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson , here by Ringo Starr with Stevie Nicks , entitled Lay Down Your Arms . The song was composed by Harry Nilsson , who died in January 1994 . In October 1996 Carl Perkins released the duet Honey Don't with Ringo Starr on his album Go Cat Go ; But this is a live recording of the album Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band , to which Carl Perkins added his vocals afterwards. From 1994 to 1996 Ringo Starr was also involved in the work on the Beatles' anthology project.

The concept of the production was taken over from the albums Ringo and Goodnight Vienna , as in turn several prominent musicians supported Ringo Starr for the album. Ringo Starr hired Mark Hudson, whom he met while recording for Time Takes Time, to produce. Mark Hudson, who among other things wrote songs for Aerosmith , began to write songs for the new studio album with Ringo Starr as well as Dean Grakal and Steve Dudas in February 1997. Some songs on the album are partly reminiscent of the music of the Beatles, and so Vertical Man remains musically in the continuity of the previous album Time Takes Time .

The first recordings for the album took place between February and April 1997 in the Whatinthewhatthe? Studios, where the songs Everyday, King of Broken Hearts, Mr. Double-It-Up, One and I'll Be Fine Anywhere were recorded. During this first recording time the music group Ringo and the Roundheads was founded, which should appear in advertising appearances for the album Vertical Man .

After a break, further recordings took place in the same studio from July to August 1997, where the songs La De Da, What in the… World, Mindfield, Without Understanding, Good News and I'm Yours were recorded.

From late September to October 1997 Paul McCartney contributed background vocals to La De Da and What in the… World and bass to the second song in his studio The Mill . In the AIR Studios orchestrations were for the songs I'm Yours and King of Broken Hearts added.

In November 1997, Whatinthewhatthe? Studios recorded the songs I Was Walkin ', Puppet and Sometimes ; The pieces that had already been recorded were also completed with additional vocals and instrumental additions. Between November 1997 and January 1998, the songs Love Me Do - a new recording of the Beatles' first single from October 1962 - and the title song Vertical Man were recorded; the second song has not yet been released. George Harrison added guitar playing to the songs King of Broken Hearts and I'll Be Fine Anywhere in his studio FPSHOT in December 1997 . In the A&M Studios, the songs were mixed by Geoff Emerick .

The planned publication on the Guardian label could not be carried out because it became insolvent; Ringo Starr signed a new record deal with Mercury in April 1998 . The contract with Mercury was limited to three album releases.

At Abbey Road Studios , Steven Tyler's vocals for the song Drift Away were replaced by Tom Petty's vocals in May 1998 , as Steven Tyler's record company refused to approve the recording. Early promotional CDs of the Vertical Man album include the Steve Tyler version.

The album was relatively successful commercially, and so an album by Ringo Starr reached the British and German charts for the first time since 1974 ( Goodnight Vienna ) .

Cover design

The cover designed Sandra Monteparo. The cover photos were taken by Henry Diltz . The CD comes with a hinged, illustrated eight-page booklet that contains information about the songs and the album.

Track list

  1. One (Richard Starkey * / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 3:02
  2. What in the… World (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 3:29
  3. Mindfield (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:06
  4. King of Broken Hearts (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:44
  5. Love Me Do ( Lennon / McCartney ) - 3:44
  6. Vertical Man (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:43
  7. Drift Away (Mentor Williams) - 4:10
  8. I Was Walkin ' (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Steve Dudas) - 3:21
  9. La De Da (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 5:41
  10. Without Understanding (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Steve Dudas) - 4:22
  11. I'll Be Fine Anywhere (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 3:42
  12. Puppet (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 3:21
  13. I'm Yours (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Mark Nevin) - 3:23

Japanese bonus title 1998

  1. Mr. Double-It-Up (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:03
  2. Everyday (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:09

USA bonus CD 1998 ( Best Buy )

  1. Mr. Double-It-Up (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 4:03
  2. Sometimes (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 2:45
  3. Good News (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) - 3:12
∗ Richard Starkey is the birth name of Ringo Starr

Re-releases

The CD release from 1998 has not yet been remastered .

Single releases

La De Da

The only single La De Da (Radio Edit) / Everyday was released in June 1998 in the USA as a 7 ″ vinyl single, and in August 1998 as a CD single in Germany as follows: La De Da (Radio Edit) / Everyday / Love Me Thu / La De Da . No single was released in the UK, only a CD promotional single. Information as to whether the 7 ″ vinyl single went on sale in the USA is not certain; only the publication of the promotional 7 ″ vinyl single and promotional CD are verifiable.

Promotion singles

In October 1998 the promotional CD single King of Broken Hearts (Edit) / King of Broken Hearts (album version) was released in the USA and the promotional CD single One in Europe .

Chart placements

year album Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1998 Vertical Man 59 - - 85 61
year Single release Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1998 La De Da - - nv nv -

Others

  • It was not published in LP format.
  • A music video was recorded for the song La De Da for promotional purposes.
  • In the USA a limited edition of the CD was released with a cardboard cover that could be opened twice and a different design; Furthermore, the album was distributed with an additional bonus CD at Best Buy in the USA .
  • For promotional purposes, a promotional CD entitled 4 Songs from Vertical Man was released in the US, which contains the following four songs: La De Da / One / I Was Walkin '/ King of Broken Hearts .

literature

  • Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms to Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 , pp. 552-555.
  • CD booklet

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Single La De Da
  2. ↑ British promotional CD single La De Da
  3. ↑ USA Promotion 7 ″ single La De Da
  4. ↑ Promotional single King of Broken Hearts
  5. ^ Promotional single One
  6. ↑ Promotion CD: 4 Songs from Vertical Man