"Ringo’s Rotogravure" by Ringo Starr – **

First released: 1976

After the back-to-back successes of "Ringo" and "Goodnight Vienna", Ringo was poised for new success with a new label, Atlantic. This probably should have been the beginning of his biggest success, but unfortunately was the beginning of a number of years in which Ringo struggled with lousy material and personal health problems. In fact, it would really take until the 1992 release of "Time Takes Time" for Ringo to return to a respectable level of quality in terms of his studio output. Unfortunately, the pop charts have never reflected this since and "Rotogravure" has gone down as Ringo’s final chart success, despite it being a somewhat lame album, even with the participation of all three former Beatles in performance or writing. I originally found my copy (and "Ringo the 4th") as a cutout bin mainstay in 1978. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find either album sealed or unsealed without the dreaded cutout.