Give more love

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Give more love
Ringo Starr's studio album

Publication
(s)

September 14, 2017 ( US ) ,
September 15, 2017 ( UK , D )

Label (s) Universal Music Group

Format (s)

CD , LP , download

Genre (s)

Pop , country , rock 'n' roll , rock , reggae

Title (number)

CD: 14; LP: 10

running time

CD: 52 min 45 s
LP: 38 min 16 s

occupation (in brackets next to the songs according to the title list )
  • Joe Walsh - guitar (7, 11), backing vocals (1)
  • Greg Leisz - guitar (5, 8)
  • Steve Dudas - guitar (5, 6, 9, 10)
  • Gary Nicholson - guitar (9)
  • Petter Ericson Stakee - guitar (13), backing vocals (13), percussion (13)
  • Matthew Pynn - guitar (13)
  • J. Tom Hnatow - guitar (12, 14)
  • Mark Charles Heidinger - guitar (12, 14), bass (12, 14), backing vocals (12, 14)
  • Jim Cox - Keyboard (1, 3, 8, 10)
  • Benmont Tench - Keyboard (2, 7)
  • Pete Remm - Keyboard (13)
  • Bob Malone - piano (11)
  • Erik MacQueen - Bass (13)
  • Fredrik Aspelin - drums (13), percussion (13)
  • Robby Consenza - drums (12, 14), percussion (12, 14), harmonica (12)
  • Bruce Sugar - drum programming (5), keyboard (6)
  • Greg Bissonette - Percussion (10)
  • Richard Page - backing vocals (2, 3, 10)
  • Amy Keys - backing vocals (2-4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
  • Windy Wagner - background vocals (4, 6, 7, 9)
  • Gary Burr - backing vocals (5, 8), guitar (5)
  • Georgia Middleman - backing vocals (5, 8)
  • Rose Guerin - backing vocals (12, 14)
  • Viktor Buck - backing vocals (13)

production

Ringo Starr

Studio (s)

Rocca Bella West, Los Angeles

chronology
Postcards from Paradise
2015 		Give more love What's My Name
2019

Give More Love is the 35th album or the 19th studio album by Ringo Starr after the Beatles split up . It was released on September 15, 2017 in Germany and Great Britain (USA: September 14, 2017).

History of origin

Since the recording of his studio album Y Not , Ringo Starr took over the responsible role of the first producer ; at Ringo 2012 he was the first sole producer, which he continued with the album Postcards from Paradise and Give More Love .

The exact recording times for the album Give More Love are not documented. The studio recordings were made in the Rocca Bella Studio, which is located in a Ringo Starr guest house in Los Angeles , and the musicians were recorded depending on the availability of the individual artists.

As with the previous album Postcards from Paradise , prominent musicians were again involved in this album. It worked, among others, Joe Walsh , Paul McCartney , Peter Frampton , Dave Stewart , Timothy B. Schmit , Steve Lukather and Jeff Lynne with. Ringo Starr was the composer or co-composer of all ten songs.

Starr's original idea was to record another country album with Dave Stewart in Nashville after Beaucoups of Blues from 1970 , but the recordings were not made due to touring obligations. The album includes several musical styles, for example: We're on the Road Again (Rock), Show Me the Way ( Pop ), So Wrong for So Long ( Country ), Standing Still (Country-Rock), King of the Kingdom ( Reggae ) and Shake It Up ( Rock 'n' Roll ).

The song Electricity is the fifth homage to his time before the Beatles after the songs In Liverpool from the album Ringo 2012 , The Other Side of Liverpool from the album Y Not and Liverpool 8 from the album of the same name, which are addressed to his hometown, with partly autobiographical texts are. Rory and the Hurricanes , from the album Postcards from Paradise , was the name of the band in which Ringo Starr played drums for the Beatles. Electricity is lyrically about the guitarist, Johnny Guitar (real name: John Byrne) of the music group Rory Storm & the Hurricanes .

The song Laughable deals with the change of government in the USA in 2016/2017 and its consequences from the point of view of Ringo Starr and Peter Frampton without mentioning the name of Donald Trump .

The last four songs on the CD are new recordings of Ringo Starr songs. In Back Off Boogaloo , originally a single A-side in March 1972, including the original demo from 1972 was used. Don't Pass Me By originally came from the Beatles album The BEATLES . Photograph was originally Ringo Starr's first number one hit in the United States and was first released on the Ringo album. The song You Can't Fight Lightning was originally supposed to be released on the album Can't Fight Lightning in March 1981 , but the record company refused to release it in this form, so the song was first released in September 1994 when the album was re-released Stop and Smell the Roses took place.

Give More Love is Ringo Starr's fifth album to be released by Universal .

Cover design

The cover designed Vartan and Meire Murakami. The CD is accompanied by an illustrated four-page booklet that contains information about the album.

Track list

  1. We're on the Road Again (Richard Starkey * / Steve Lukather ) - 4:24
  2. Laughable (Richard Starkey / Peter Frampton ) - 2:58
  3. Show Me the Way (Richard Starkey / Steve Lukather) - 4:42
  4. Speed ​​of Sound (Richard Starkey / Richard Marx ) - 3: 046
  5. Standing Still (Richard Starkey / Gary Burr) - 3:06
  6. King of the Kingdom (Richard Starkey) - 4:36
  7. Electricity (Richard Starkey / Glen Ballard ) - 3:38
  8. So Wrong for So Long (Richard Starkey / Dave Stewart ) - 4:03
  9. Shake It Up (Richard Starkey / Gary Nicholson) - 3:02
  10. Give More Love (Richard Starkey / Gary Nicholson) - 4:01
  11. Back Off Boogaloo (Richard Starkey / George Harrison ) - 2:55
  12. Don't Pass Me By (Richard Starkey) - 3:38
  13. You Can't Fight Lightning (Richard Starkey) - 4:21 **
  14. Photographer (Richard Starkey / George Harrison) - 3:35 ***
∗ Richard Starkey is the birth name of Ringo Starr
∗∗ Ringo Starr and Alberta Cross
∗∗∗ Ringo Starr and Vandaveer

Single releases

Give More Love and We're On the Road Again were released as singles in July 2017 , So Wrong For So Long in August 2017 and Standing Still as download singles in September 2017 .

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 69 (1 week) 1
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 65 (1 week) 1
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 51 (1 week) 1
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 128 (1 week) 1

None of the four download singles made it into the charts.

Others

A release as LP took place as with the previous albums Y Not , Ringo 2012 and Postcards from Paradise . The LP contains only ten songs instead of 14, the last four songs on the CD are not included on the LP.

literature

  • CD booklet

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Idea for the album
  2. ^ Text from Electricity
  3. ↑ Text of Laughable
  4. ↑ album cover
  5. ↑ a b c d Chart sources: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts US