Since The Beatles disbanded, Ringo Starr has sustained a respectable solo career, one that s allowed the iconic drummer to call the shots and make music by his own accord. Much of the finest music he s made comes together on the newly released retrospective, Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr . This solid compilation features twenty tracks, many of them bona fide hits, most of them instantly familiar.
What this disc underscores, besides the songs themselves, is the quality of musicians that Starr worked with in making them, from his three former bandmates to the likes of Elton John, Billy Preston, and Eric Clapton. Of all the artists that contributed to this music, none resonate as often or as profound as George Harrison. Photograph and It Don t Come Easy rank as two of Starr s most recognizable recordings, not least because of Harrison s involvement in their creation, having co-written and produced the former while producing the latter.
He also contributed the loose and bouncy track, Wrack My Brain, and produced the weird and wonderful smash, Back Off Boogaloo . Starr wrote the poignant song, Never Without You, which features Eric Clapton on guitar, in tribute to his departed friend. During his Lost Weekend, John Lennon offered Starr two songs, Goodnight Vienna and the tongue-in-cheek humor of I m The Greatest, which illustrates that Lennon was, perhaps, not quite as lost during this time as he d claimed.
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