ARTIST: Ringo Starr
TITLE: Choose Love
LABEL: Koch
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 230kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-06-07
RIP DATE: 2005-06-06
Track List
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01. Fading In Fading Out 3:57
02. Give Me Back The Beat 3:54
03. Oh My Lord 5:32
04. Hard To Be True 3:27
05. Some People 3:18
06. Wrong All The Time 3:39
07. Don't Hang Up 3:27
08. Choose Love 3:07
09. Me And You 2:15
10. Satisfied 3:19
11. The Turnaround 3:54
12. Free Drinks 4:47
Release Notes:
"'The Long And Winding Road' is more than a song," Ringo Starr sings
on the title track of his latest album "Choose Love." And one of the
most remarkable things about "Choose Love" is that this far down that
long and winding road, Ringo Starr has never sounded more excited and
engaged by the music he's making and the message of love that it spreads.
"Choose Love" is full of inspired songs of innocence and experience --
the heartfelt and heartening work of someone who's lived a little and
learned a lot. This is rousing, rough and ready rock & roll that lovingly
embraces the past, but has its eye very much on our shared future. And it's
an album first and foremost about the best choice any of us have -- Love.
"What other choice is there?" Starr asks as he sits at home with Mark Hudson.
Hudson is one of his key fellow travelers in the journey of the Roundheads,
the loose but tight combo of collaborators -- Hudson, Steve Dudas, Gary Burr
and auxiliary Roundhead Jim Cox -- who have worked with Ringo on his recent
run of winning albums. For Starr, love is a theme of profound and enduring
importance. "From the beginning, the Beatles were saying 'I Wanna Hold Your
Hand' and 'Love Me Do.' It was all about love and that's still the most
powerful message. If you look at the overall picture, the Beatles were about
love and what better subject is there really?"
Having lost his way somewhere in the first half of the Seventies, Ringo Starr
eventually found love with his wife Barbara and found his way back to his
love of music at the start of the Nineties. And now with the Roundheads,
he has rediscovered his rightful place in the world. "I am a band member,"
he declares. "That's who I am. That's who I want to be. It takes a band --
even more than it takes a vill