Four thousand continuous days on the sea of blog today on It Starts With a Birthstone. Well it's something to do. Keeps me occupied. And what to write about before we set off prow aloft onwards to 5.000. What better place than Ringo Starr's new record Look Up. 'The talk of the town.' Well hardly. But certainly a very curious record in this increasingly curious world.
Take the cover for starters. There sits the instantly recognisable Richard Starkey. 'Not the best drummer in The Beatles' as the legend goes, looking like a lovesick elderly buzzard in shades and a highly inadvisable stetson. Listen to the record and curious becomes curioser. It's certainly star packed in terms of its collaborations. Billy String, Molly Tuttle. Lucius, Alison Krauss.
The songs themselves sound like AI generated updates on the songs John and Paul used to write for Ringo every album. Bland platitudes and comic rhymes where you can't quite work out whether this is Ringo or the return of Barry Wong. Whether this is untended to bereally bad or not. I still can't really figure it out. the one redemming feature seeming to be a touching commitment to love which is The Beatles greatest legacy.
Occasionally the sun breaks through the clouds but for the most part this is a bizarre set of C & W plodders with some of the mot peculiar lyrics you've ever heard and you can't help but wonder what that old cynic Lennon would have thought. As for It Starts onwards and towards towards 5,000. Rock on Ringo !.
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