Part One: The Icons

By PopMatters Staff

With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird. [28 July 2008]

Ringo Starr and the Roundheads: Live

By Christel Loar

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. [18 October 2009]

Ringo Starr: Liverpool 8

By Barry Lenser

Liverpool 8 is the work of an artist completely at ease with himself. [25 January 2008]

Ringo Starr: Photograph

By Evan Sawdey

As McCartney wrote "Silly Love Songs", Ringo was actually writing silly love songs. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that. [31 August 2007]

Ringo Starr: Ringo Rama

By Adam Williams

If radio won’t push Ringo’s new album, he and his All-Starrs will [1 July 2008]