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Artist: Starr, Ringo Release Date: 1998
Format: CD Record Label: Mercury
Genre: Rock & Pop UPC: D126365
Sub-Genre: Rock & Pop

Track listing
1. With A Little Help From My Friends
2. It Don't Come Easy
3. I Was Walkin'
4. Don't Pass Me By
5. Back Off Boogaloo
6. King Of Broken Hearts
7. Octopus's Garden
8. Photograph
9. La De Da
10. What In The...World
11. Love Me Do
12. With A Little Help From My Friends (Reprise)
13. I've Got Blisters...
14. End, The

Details
Contributing artists: Jack Blades, Joe Walsh, Simon Kirke
Producer: Mark Hudson, Sean Murphy
Distributor: Universal Distribution
Recording type: Live
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album notes
Personnel: Ringo Starr (vocals, keyboards, drums); Gary Burr (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin); Mark Hudson (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica); Jim Cox (vocals, Hammond B3 organ, keyboards); Jack Blades (vocals, bass); Joe Walsh, Steve Dudas (electric guitar); Scott Gordon (harmonica); Simon Kirke (drums).
Recorded live at Sony Studios, New York, New York.
Just as Unplugged is to MTV, Storytellers is to older-skewing cable sister VH1. But rather than simply featuring acoustic performances, VH1's program forces the performer to discuss the stories behind particular songs. Enter Ringo Starr and his knack for well-turned quips and delicious sense of humor. Backed by a band that features guitarist Joe Walsh, Night Ranger's Jack Blades on bass and Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, Starr chose songs spanning his career for this tight set.
Admirably, a number of these songs come from VERTICAL MAN, the studio album that preceded VH1 STORYTELLERS by a few months. These include "King of Broken Hearts" and "La De Da," both co-written by Starr, who showed his songwriting muscles to be far from atrophied. This being an interactive segment, Richard Starkey the raconteur was in his element. "Back Off Boogalo" was accompanied by an anecdote concerning the late Marc Bolan providing inspiration for the song, and how a vacation to Sardinia resulted in the penning of "Octopus' Garden."

Editorial reviews
...How out of character to hear him employ the Storytellers format to flip through his Beatles and solo songbook. It's his yarns, though, that are most engaging....A nice retrospective of an underappreciated composer. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/06/1998)

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