Ringo Starr: Live at Soundstage
Occupation
- Ringo Starr - drums, percussion, vocals
- Mark Hudson - guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
- Steve Dudas - Guitar
- Gary Burr - guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
- Mark Hart - keyboards, backing vocals
- Greg Bissonette - drums, backing vocals
- Matt Bissonette - bass, backing vocals
Ringo Starr: Live at Soundstage is the twenty-sixth album, or the ninth live album by Ringo Starr after the breakup of the Beatles. It was released on 27 October 2007 in the United States. In Germany and the UK, the album did not appear. It could not place in the charts in the U.S..
Genesis
After the release of the studio album Choose Love in July 2005, Ringo Starr went with his group The Roundheads on promotional tour. In 2005, Ringo Starr was not on tour with the All- Starr Band.
On 25 August 2005, the concert at The Genesee Theatre in Waukegan (USA) was recorded and released as the fifth Ringo Starr CD by Koch over two years later. It is the fifth album, Mark Hudson and Ringo Starr produced together, and the second live album by VH1 Storytellers in which Ringo Starr sings all the songs. At the concert, but also sang as a guest musician Colin Hay three songs, one of them, Who Can It Be Now, was on the DVD Soundstage: Ringo Starr released and the Roundheads.
The concert was given under the PBS concert series titled Soundstage. The songs that were located on the CD all by Ringo Starr sang and career across, so the song Boys with the Beatles in 1963 has been released and the newest song, Choose Love, appeared in 2005.
The full program of the concert was as follows:
The designer of the cover was Andrew Kelley. The cover photos were taken by Brent Carpenter and Gary Burr.
Title list
- * Richard Starkey, the birth name of Ringo Starr
Deluxe Edition
On April 3, 2009 1 ½ years later, the album was re-released with a DVD in a deluxe version. The DVD is approximately 29 minutes long and contains the following content:
Single releases
No single releases were made from the album.
More information
A publication in the LP format was not made.
In September 2009, a DVD into a 5.1 mix titled Soundstage was: Ringo Starr and the Roundheads released in the U.S. (release date in Europe: March 2012), this includes the following songs:
Reissues
The CD release from 2007 has not yet been newly remastered.