RINGO STARR’S ALL STARR BAND
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band is a live rock supergroup with shifting personnel led by former Beatles drummer and vocalist Ringo Starr. Since 1989, Starr has toured with twelve variations of the band, where “everybody on stage is a star in their own right”. Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band is a concept that was created by producer David Fishof. The band has consistently toured for over two decades, and rotates its line-up depending on the musicians’ projects and availability at any given time. Typically at an All-Starr Band concert, Starr will perform some songs from both his solo career and his years with the Beatles, then each band member will take turns performing two to three hits from their own career as well as the occasional acoustic/solo spot. The All-Starrs do not generally release original music, but every few years a live album from the band is released, generally as part of a new All Starr Band. (More from Wikipedia)
For the past 25 years, Ringo Starr has spent most of his time with Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, which has featured a rotating line-up of some of the finest rock musicians on earth, Levon Helm, Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Billy Squier, and Edgar Winter among them. They are dropping by the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the middle of next month.
(September 2014)
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Wikipedia reports: “To date, [Ringo] Starr has closed every concert performed by each version of his All Starr Band, with this song [‘With a Little Help from My Friends’]. After he is done singing, Starr tells the audience, ‘Peace and love . . . peace and love is the only way . . . and good night’, then walks off the stage. . . .”
(June 2015)
