Ringo Starr

To say Bad Boy is a very bad record almost misses the point: Ringo Starr's solo career has
never had much to do with talent. His only successful post-Beatles album, Ringo, played
around with this notion by casting him as a jet-set Candide, lost in producer Richard Perry's
purposefully overblown showbiz setting. Subsequent LPs strip-mined such an obvious,
one-shot concept bare: the music and the material grew steadily worse until ev... More >