in Liverpool on July 7, 1940, was a sickly child who spent a year in the hospital due to peritonitis and two years in a sanitarium for pleurisy. (It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs.A post shared by Paul McCartney Starr achieved stardom as a member of The Beatles, who took England by storm in 1963 and followed it up by spearheading the “British Invasion” to the United States in 1964. To me, the end result is a better song than anything Ringo sang on in his previous life - except for “A Little Help From My Friends - and that combined with the instant post-Beatles nostalgia meant that “It Don’t Come Easy” made it to #4, and a staple on classic rock and oldies stations.ĭid you miss a Certain Song? Follow me on Twitter: Certain Songs DatabaseĪ filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. So yeah, perhaps there are too many backing vocalists and horns throughout, and yeah, Harrison’s guitar solo is utterly buried underneath the haze, but when they get to that breakdown - a cousin of the riff of Cream’s “Badge,” (also a Harrison co-write) and the riff at the end of “You Never Give Me Your Money” - in the middle of the song, and again at the end, all is forgiven.
Now, one might grouse that by 1971, any dues that Ringo Starr had paid were long forgotten, but you know, it’s just a pop song that’s smart enough to stuff a bunch of extraneous instrumentation into every nook and cranny - I can’t ever tell if the horns that answer Ringo’s “it don’t come easy” from the second chorus on are a major hook or a major annoyance. Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues Which was why the top-notch “It Don’t Come Easy,” which opened with a gorgeous winding guitar breakdown from ringer and co-writer George Harrison - the other three Beatles hated each other, but everyone loved Ringo - that he could have easily kept for himself.Īfter the intro, some backing vocalists single the title a few times, and then Ringo went straight for the kill with the chorus. I’m taking the piss, because buried within that run were a pair of songs that were and are unimpeachable AM radio classics, so I can’t just write it all off to post-Beatles hangover syndrome. reasons, I guess? Now, let’s never speak of it again.) (And for whatever reason, they made a video of “You’re Sixteen” in 1978 featuring Carrie Fisher for. And, of course, “You’re Sixteen,” a song which felt gross to me even back then. Not to mention that a lot of those singles were kind of ridiculous on an artistic level - “Back Off Boogaloo,” “Oh My My” “No No Song” - and there were some others I don’t even remember by the titles, but I am assured were big singles. Though Macca ended up with more, eventually.
That’s a better five-year run than - to pull some random names out of a hat - John Lennon, George Harrison or Paul McCartney ever had.
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Recorded a full year before it was released as a single, “It Don’t Come Easy” was the first of a ridiculous run of Ringo Starr singles.Īnd I do mean ridiculous: from 1971 – 1975, every single single Ringo released made the the top ten, two of them peaking at #1.
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