Bad Boy (Ringo Starr album)

chronology
Bad boy
Ringo Starr's studio album
Publication ; (s)	April 17, 1978 ( US ) , ; June 16, 1978 ( UK )
Label (s)	Polydor / Portrait Records; Columbia Records / Epic Records (USA)
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC , download
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	10
running time	34 min 27 s
occupation	Ringo Starr - vocals, drums ; Lon Van Eaten under the pseudonym Push-a-Lone - guitar ; Jimmy Webb under the pen name Git-tar - guitar; Dr. John under the pseudonym Hamisch Bissonnette - synthesizer ; Dee Murray under the pseudonym Diesel - Bass ; Morris Lane - keyboard ; Tom of the North - Brass arrangements; Sound engineer : Bob Schaper;
production	Vini Poncia
Studio (s)	Nimbus 9 Studios, Toronto, Canada; Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, Canada; Elite Recording Studios, Bahamas;

Bad Boy is the eighth album or the seventh studio album by Ringo Starr after the Beatles split up . It was released in Great Britain (USA: April 17, 1978) on June 16, 1978.

History of origin

Despite the commercial failure of the album Ringo the 4th , Ringo Starr decided to keep the concept and again renounced the support of celebrity friends; only studio musicians contributed the musical accompaniment, these are only mentioned under pseudonyms .

Atlantic Records in the USA decided after the failure of the album Ringo the 4th to end the recording contract in the USA with Ringo Starr; Polydor followed with the termination of the record contract in Great Britain after the release of the album Scouse the Mouse , so that Ringo Starr concluded a new contract with "Portrait Records" for this album. In the countries outside of the UK where the album Scouse the Mouse did not appear, the album Bad Boy was still released by Polydor.

In advance of the album, Ringo Starr recorded the songs Simple Life and I Love My Suit , which were used for promotional purposes in Japan and were released on bootlegs .

The recordings for Bad Boy extended from November 1977 to March 1978, with the majority of the recordings being completed in November 1977 in Canada within ten days. Ringo Starr only added two of the ten compositions with Vini Poncia , one of the eight foreign compositions, Where Did Our Love Go , was a hit with the Supremes in 1964 . The song A Man Like Me is a re-recording of A Mouse Like Me , which was released on the album Scouse the Mouse . After the album was released, the record deal with Polydor was not renewed.

Cover design

The cover was designed by John Kosh. The cover photos were taken by Ringo Starr and his girlfriend at the time, Nancy Andrews.

Track list

Page 1:

Who Needs a Heart (Vini Poncia / Richard Starkey ^∗ ) - 3:48
Bad Boy ( Lil Armstrong / Avon Long) - 3:14
Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette) ( Naomi Neville ) - 3:01
Heart on My Sleeve ( Gallagher / Lyle ) - 3:20
Where Did Our Love Go ( Holland / Dozier / Holland ) - 3:15

Page 2:

Hard Times (Peter Skellern) - 3:31
Tonight ( Ian McLagan / John Pidgeon) - 2:56
Monkey See — Monkey Do ( Michael Franks ) - 3:36
Old Time Relovin ' (Vini Poncia / Richard Starkey) - 4:16
A Man Like Me (Ruan O'Lochlainn) - 3:08

^∗ Richard Starkey is the birth name of Ringo Starr

Re-releases

It was first released in CD format in the US by Epic Records in March 1991 without a bonus track. The CD comes with an eight-page booklet that contains information about the songs and the album and the lyrics. The CD release from 1991 has not yet been remastered .
In August 2007 the album was released in download format.
In September 2017, the album was re-released in the USA on 180 grams of transparent yellow vinyl.

Single releases

Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)

The first single Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) / Old Time Relovin 'was released on April 17, 1978 in the USA. The single version of Old Time Relovin ' was shortened.

The promotional single was published in the USA as follows: the mono version is on the A side and the stereo version of the A side of the sales single is on the B side.

Heart on My Sleeve .

The second single, Heart on My Sleeve / Who Needs a Heart, was released on July 3, 1978 in the USA. The single version of Heart on My Sleeve has been shortened.

The promotional single was published in the USA as follows: the mono version is on the A side and the stereo version of the A side of the sales single is on the B side.

Tonight

The first single in the UK was Tonight / Heart on My Sleeve on July 21, 1978 .

Bad Boy (EP)

No single was released in Germany, but an EP with the songs Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) / Bad Boy / Tonight / Who Needs a Heart / Old Time Relovin 'was distributed; but since the addition "Club-Selektion" is mentioned on the cover, it is not unlikely that the EP was only available through a book club .

Chart placements

year	album	Chart placements
year	album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1978	Bad boy	-	-	-	-	129
year	Single release	Chart placements
year	Single release	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1978	Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)	nv	nv	nv	nv	-
1978	Heart on My Sleeve	nv	nv	nv	nv	-
1978	Tonight	nv	nv	nv	-	nv

Others

A music video was recorded for the song Tonight for promotional purposes.
Between February and March 1978, Ringo Starr recorded a one-hour television film called Ringo . The film was inspired by Mark Twain's The Prince and the Beggar Boy and told the story of a rich pop star (Ringo Starr) who can no longer stand the pressure to succeed and swaps places with a poor man named "Ognir Rrats". Ringo Starr played a double role: himself and "Ognir Rrats". Despite well-known actors such as Carrie Fisher , Vincent Price and John Ritter as well as George Harrison's participation in the role of narrator, the show was not a success and the album did not have a positive advertising effect. The film, which was broadcast in the USA on NBC in April 1978, contained songs from older solo and Beatles albums as well as three tracks from his current long-playing record Bad Boy (Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Times and A Man Like Me) .

literature

Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 . (Pages 514 to 517)
Neville Stannard: Working Class Heroes , ISBN 0-907080-92-8

Web links

More information about the album

Individual evidence

[1] Re-release Bad Boy (Yellow Vinyl)

[2] Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) - Single

[3] Promotion 7 ″ vinyl single: Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)

[4] Heart on My Sleeve - Single

[5] Promotion 7 ″ vinyl single: Heart on My Sleeve

[6] Tonight - single

[7] Bad Boy EP