Features
Monday, July 28 2008
Part One: The Icons
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.
Columns
Monday, October 17 2011
Old Country Comfort: How the British Might Save American Music (Again)
The British saved rock 'n' roll, reignited the blues, and may just make country music more American.
Reviews
Sunday, October 18 2009
Ringo Starr and the Roundheads: Live
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.
Friday, January 25 2008
Ringo Starr: Liverpool 8
Liverpool 8 is the work of an artist completely at ease with himself.
Friday, August 31 2007
Ringo Starr: Photograph
As McCartney wrote "Silly Love Songs", Ringo was actually writing silly love songs. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that.
Blogs
Thursday, July 7 2011
Ringo Starr’s 71st Birthday: A Life In Videos
Let’s take a look at some of the career highlights of one of the most well known drummers in music history.
Wednesday, July 7 2010
Celebrating 70 Years of Ringo Starr (videos)
On July 7th, 1940, Richard Starkey was born in Liverpool, but from 1959 on, he would mostly be known to the world as Ringo Starr. Here's an up-to-date video flashback of his entire career.
News
Wednesday, January 27 2010
Ringo Starr relishes new challenges, but he's forever a Beatle
LOS ANGELES — The 69-year-old visitor to the downtown Grammy Museum strolled with fascination through its new exhibit of Alfred Wertheimer's celebrated 1956 photos of…
Tuesday, July 1 2008
If radio won't push Ringo's new album, he and his All-Starrs will
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…
