"Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band" by Ringo Starr – ***

First released: 1990

At long last, after just a handful of live appearances by Ringo Starr, Ringo embarked on his first solo tour of sorts in 1989, mainly because it wasn’t just Ringo by himself for two hours, he had the comfort of a number of friends who found themselves in similar career slumps and Ringo decided to revive his own and his friends fortunes by touring together. It’s been a great idea that’s perhaps been repeated too often, because at this point I would like to see a true solo Ringo tour, but that’s probably never going to happen. Seeing Ringo live in this form is better than never seeing Ringo at all. The album had only 12 of the tracks that were performed live, but a limited edition with a few more tracks also appeared originally. The DVD/VHS has the complete concert, which has yet to be issued to CD, and is much better. Ringo’s performance was a bit rough on this tour and the All-Stars didn’t gel as much as they did on later tours, but in 1989 who knew Ringo would repeat this ever again.