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Ringo Starr and the Roundheads: Live

by Christel Loar

[18.Oct.09] :. Ringo Starr knows how to give his audience what they want, even when he's not giving them everything. This 2005 performance is a perfect example of showmanship, even if it's all too brief.

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Sound Affects

(500) Days of Summer—The Music

by Jennifer Cooke

[8.Oct.09] :. Director Marc Webb's deft, nuanced use of pop music does more than just enhance an already great film.

Sound Affects

 

Column: Mixtape Confessions

Waltzing with Wilco

by Ben Rubenstein

[7.Apr.09] :. As any experienced concert-goer knows, a lively audience can mean the difference between a lackluster event and a memorable night. Sometimes, it’s more important than the band's actual performance.

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At Radio City, Paul and Ringo together again

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.Apr.09] :. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sang “With a Little Help From My Friends” into the same microphone as part of their most significant collaboration in decades Saturday night at New York...

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The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary Feature

The White Album: Side Four

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Nov.08] :. The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end.

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary

 

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary Feature

The White Album: Side Three

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Nov.08] :. It's back to basics once again as the band finds the musical muscle memory to mesh all their influences into seven sensational tracks.

The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary

 

The White Album: Side Two

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Nov.08] :. It's the Beatles 'unplugged' -- from stardom, from pressures, from the friendship that held them together -- while simultaneously reaching inward and outward.

 

The White Album: Side One

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Nov.08] :. It's all guitars and good times as the Fab Four rediscover the joys of jamming -- as well as the hidden pain and problems poised to tear them apart.

 

Birthday: The White Album Turns 40

by Zeth Lundy and Bill Gibron

[17.Nov.08] :. In the first day of PopMatters' week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' self-titled double album, Bill Gibron and Zeth Lundy discuss the record's importance and impact, and why it continues to resonate within popular culture some four decades later.

 

If radio won’t push Ringo’s new album, he and his All-Starrs will

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[1.Jul.08] :. These days, even Beatles get the blues. Despite good reviews and a decent publicity push, Ringo Starr’s latest album, “Liverpool 8” (Capitol), sold only 7,000 copies in its first...

 

Ringo Starr: Liverpool 8

by Barry Lenser

[25.Jan.08] :. Liverpool 8 is the work of an artist completely at ease with himself.

 

The Best Music DVDs of 2007

by Ron Hart

[25.Jan.08] :. The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.

 

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

 

Paul McCartney – We Believe In Yesterday

by Gary Frenay

[2.Jan.08] :. Taken together, Help! and The McCartney Years, show the breadth of an artist's career, warts and all. Few have lived a life as well-documented or as successful as Paul McCartney.

 

Help!

by Zeth Lundy

[2.Nov.07] :. The Beatles' second (and second-best) movie, an absurdist romp with Bond-esque aspirations, gets an overdue clean-up on this new double-disc edition.

 

Ringo Starr: Photograph

by Evan Sawdey

[31.Aug.07] :. As McCartney wrote "Silly Love Songs", Ringo was actually writing silly love songs. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that.

 

Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Jun.07] :. Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.

 

Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. It was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world.

 

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

by Zeth Lundy

[8.Nov.06] :. Reissue of the Quiet Beatle's fourth solo album from 1973 includes a few extra b-sides and a bonus DVD.

 

Ringo Starr: Ringo Rama

by Adam Williams

[15.Jul.03] :. What is it that endears the fourth Beatle to us all? Is it his lack of rock star pretension? His self-effacing demeanor? His sense of not taking life too seriously? Or just his ability to be, well,...

 

The Last Waltz (2002)

by Lesley Smith

[18.Apr.02] :. The Last Waltz still spirits a tingle up the spine.

 

A Hard Day’s Night (1964/2000)

by Sabadino Parker

A smooth amalgamation of Richard Lester's intricate direction, Alun Owen's hysterical screenplay, and the natural charms of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a film perfectly of its time and perfectly timeless.