Sneaking Sally Through the Alley. The Allen Toussaint perennial gets a nicely funky disco-fied workout. It’s a great song, and Richie does it justice, I think. It’s a perfect song for his limited vocal range. No patch on Bob Palmer, but fun just the same. Gravure was once used widely for printing newspapers, magazines, postcards, and other commercial products. Publication presses typically ran at 45 feet per second, with a separate cylinder required for each colour. Cover artwork

Ringo The 4th saw Starr adopting R&B and disco styles, although his attempts to move with the times did not translate into record sales. Ringo the 4th is the sixth studio album by English musician Ringo Starr, released on 20 September 1977. Its title is sometimes ascribed to him being the fourth member of the Beatles. Others have suggested that it is his fourth mainstream album, which excludes his Great American Songbook homage, Sentimental Journey, and his country-western foray, Beaucoups of Blues. However, Ringo the 4th is a dance-oriented record, crafted for him by his Atlantic Records producer, Arif Mardin. Ringo The 4th and Ringo’s Rotogravure were first released on compact disc in the US on 16 August 1992. A variety of guest musicians appeared on the album, including Harry Nilsson, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Klaus Voormann, and Dr John. John Lennon wrote ‘Cookin’ (In The Kitchen Of Love)’, and performed piano on the recording. The recording took place at Cherokee on 12 June 1976, Lennon’s final studio session until August 1980.

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The cover design and art direction for Ringo’s Rotogravure was by John Kosh, who had previously filled the same role on Beaucoups Of Blues, and later did the same on Ringo The 4th, Bad Boy, and Stop And Smell The Roses. Unreleased songs from the sessions included ‘Love Please’, ‘Wild Shining Stars’, ‘By Your Side’, ‘Birmingham’, and ‘This Party’, as well as private recordings with the working titles ‘Nancy, Ringo, Vini and Friends’ and ‘Duet – Nancy and Ringo’. Cover artwork Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p.184. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5.

By the end of 1961,Ringo was feeling frustrated at not progressing past holidaycamp bookings. In December, with the promise of a good fee,an apartment and the use of a car, he left the Hurricanesto return to Hamburgas drummer for Tony Sheridan. On the surface, it soundedlike a good deal, but with Sheridan’s erratic performances on stage,Ringo decided he was better offwith the Hurricanes. He returnedto Liverpool and reclaimed the drummer’s seat behind RoryStorm.The Ringo The 4th album cover was designed by John Kosh, with cover photography by Starr’s then-girlfriend Nancy Lee Andrews and Lew Hahn. The from cover photography was taken by David Alexander at his studio at Hollywood & Vine. Starr found a cheap magnifying glass in a drawer while Alexander was adjusting the lighting, which led to the cover image. It was while working at H. Hunt & Son, a school equipment firm, that Richy and Roy, along with Richy’s next door neighbour Eddie Myles, formed their first group. “One day, Eddie brought a guitar to work and we started playing in the cellar at lunchtime, among the sawdust, so Richy started banging a rhythm on anything he could find, like biscuit tins, chairs or boxes. I got a tea-chest bass and that is how we started. I used to have to carry it on the bus, and the conductor let me stand there in the aisle with it.” (DB Interview 2015) Roy Trafford lived at 7, Paulton Street, also in the Dingle, and his family had a small shop. Though the area has often been described as a poor, run-down neighbourhood, Roy disagrees. “It was a great place to live,” he says. “It was such a great community. You could play out in the streets, and then go into your mate’s house and his mother would look after you and then you’d go home. The houses were immaculate. Even though we had no toilets or bathrooms in our houses, the women had pride in their homes. The curtains were perfect, they would polish the window ledges and scrub the front step. Don’t let anyone say it was a bad place to live because it wasn’t.” ( DB Interview 2015)

Journalist Peter Palmiere states in his front cover story on Starr for DISCoveries magazine in January 2003 that "The music critics and the record buying public took the album as a joke for Ringo's voice was not suitable for the disco flavored music on Ringo the 4th". [ citation needed] Palmiere went on to claim that Ringo the 4th destroyed Starr's career and that he never commercially recovered from it. [ citation needed] So being quiet, not quite fitting in, looking unhappy behind his drums and having a different haircut had no more bearing on Ringo’s presence in The Beatles than it did the dismissal of his predecessor. As John said, “Pete was a great drummer. Ringo was a great Beatle.” (John Paul George Ringo and Me, Tony Barrow) In The Town Where I Was Born

Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. pp.184, 185. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5. The Beatles - Eight Days A Week: The Band You Know, The Story You Don't" . Retrieved 2 October 2016. Wooley, Hayden (7 July 2015). "Oeuvre Here: An 18-album Voyage Through Ringo Starr's Discography". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019 . Retrieved 15 February 2019. Harrison was reportedly dissatisfied with Starr’s version of ‘I’ll Still Love You’, and took legal action against him. The move was settled out of court later in 1976. The title Starr’s portrait was shot with a Hasselblad camera using fine grain, Ilford FP3 film. Ron Larson enhanced the print by colouring Starr’s eyes.

a b c d Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p.190. ISBN 978-0-7535-0843-5. Another Beatle-related Record Store Day release for April 23 is a 12″-single from Dark Horse Records, featuring Shankar Family & Friends: “I am missing you” b/w “Lust”. This was the first ever single released on George Harrison’s Dark Horse Records in 1974. This new pressing is on blue vinyl. George Harrison produced the songs and is depicted on the cover. I’d also like to state, and probably not for the last time, that the whole “Nobody’s Favorite” thing is not my original idea; it’s been used by a couple of bloggers of my acquaintance before, most notably David Weiss and “Calamity” Jon Morris. But not for albums, and that’s where I’m planting my little flagpole. So let’s go. As for not looking happy, Ringo told Tony Barrow that “my face might not look too chuffed (happy), but the rest of me is.” (John Paul George Ringo and Me, Tony Barrow)They also observed that he was soon known as “the ‘silent’Beatle”, thoughRingosaid hedidn’t mind “not being drawn into the free-for-alldiscussion. It gives me that air of mystery, y’know.Sort of sets people wondering what is goingon behind my bland, inexpressive, face.” (Beatles Book Monthly Jan 1965) Mastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Records in Hollywood, CA, this amazing album will also be manufactured for a very limited time on first time 180 Gram Audiophile Translucent Gold Vinyl!Ringo’s Rotogravure was released on 17 September 1976 in the UK, and ten days later in the USA. Initial copies came with a free magnifying glass. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn) . London: Omnibus Press. p.1984. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.