ICON (Ringo Starr album)
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Compilation album by Ringo Starr | ||||
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Label (s) | Apple / Capitol Records / Universal Records | |||
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11 |
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39 min 33 s |
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various |
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ICON is the 33rd music album and the sixth compilation album, respectively the fourth best-of album by Ringo Starr after the separation of the Beatles . It was released in the United States on September 9, 2014.
History of origin
In October 1975, EMI released a compilation album entitled Blast from Your Past by Ringo Starr; almost 32 years later EMI / Apple released a compilation album with the title Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo , which, in addition to the entire content of Blast from Your Past, contains seven songs that had been published by Ringo Starr on other recording companies. In 2014 another Best Of album was released by EMI / Universal Records with 11 songs. Seven or eight songs from the ICON CD are included on the album Blast from Your Past and Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo .
The album contains seven US top ten hits and four top ten hits from Great Britain. There are a total of nine single A-pages , a promotion single and a live track on the album .
Cover design
The cover designed Vartan and Meire Murakami. The cover photos are from Rob Shanahan. The CD is accompanied by an illustrated four-page booklet that contains information about the album.
Track list
- Photograph (Richard Starkey * / George Harrison ) (from the album Ringo ) - 3:58 **
- It Don't Come Easy (1971 single A-side) - 3:01 **
- You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine) (Bob Sherman / Richard Sherman) (from the album Ringo ) - 2:49 **
- Oh My My ( Vini Poncia / Richard Starkey) (from the album Ringo ) - 4:15 **
- Only You (And You Alone) (Buck Ram / Ande Rand) (from the album Goodnight Vienna ) - 3:24 **
- King of Broken Hearts (Richard Starkey / Mark Hudson / Dean Grakal / Steve Dudas) (from the album Vertical Man ) - 4:43 ***
- No No Song ( Hoyt Axton / David Jackson) (from the album Goodnight Vienna ) - 2:31 **
- Back Off Boogaloo (Richard Starkey) (single A-side from 1972) - 3:19 **
- Walk with You (from the album Ringo 2012 ) - 4:42
- (It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna (John Lennon) (from the album Goodnight Vienna ) - 3:02 **
- Yellow Submarine (Live) - 3:11
Single releases
No singles were released from the album.
Chart placements
year | album | Chart placements | ||||
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2014 | ICON | nv | nv | nv | nv | - |
Others
It was not published as an LP. Universal Records released compilation albums by several artists under the title ICON .
Chart positions of the singles contained on the album
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1971 | It don't come easy | 5 | 5 | 4th | 4th |
1972 | Back Off Boogaloo | 12 | 8th | 2 | 9 |
1973 | Photographer | 5 | 6th | 8th | 1 |
1973 | You're sixteen | 19th | - | 4th | 1 |
1974 | Oh my my | 34 | - | - | 5 |
1974 | Only you | 28 | - | 28 | 6th |
1975 | No no song | - | - | - | 3 |
1975 | It's All Down to Goodnight Vienna | - | - | nv | 31 |
2012 | Walk with you | - | - | - | - |
literature
- Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms to Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 .
- CD booklet