Ringo To Release Box Set
That long awaited All Starr Band box, "Anthology and 10 Year Anniversary", is due out in the U.S. Jan. 25 through Caroline Distribution. It's a 3-CD set with a $34.98 list price. The only major All Starr (not counting the sidemen) not included in the track listing provided by Caroline is Mark Farner.
Track Listing is below:
DISC 1:
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1. It Don't Come Easy |
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2. No No Song, The |
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3. Iko Iko - (with Dr. John) |
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4. Weight, The - (with Levon Helm) |
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5. Shine Silently - (with Nils Lofgren) |
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6. Honey Don't |
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7. Quarter To Three - (with Clarence Clemons) |
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8. Raining In My Heart - (with Rick Danko) |
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9. Will It Go Round In Circles - (with Billy Preston) |
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10. Life In The Fast Lane - (with Joe Walsh) |
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11. Desperado - (with Joe Walsh) |
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12. Norwegian Wood - (with Peter Frampton) |
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13. Walkin' Nerve - (with Nils Lofgren) |
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14. Boris The Spider - (with John Entwistle) |
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15. Boys |
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16. You're Sixteen |
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17. Photograph |
DISC 2:
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1. The Really Serious Introduction (with Quincy Jones) |
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2. I'm The Greatest |
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3. Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go |
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4. I Can't Tell You Why - (with Timothy B Schmidt) |
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5. Girls Talk - (with Dave Edmunds) |
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6. People Gotta Be Free - (with Felix Cavaliere) |
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7. Groovin' - (with Felix Cavaliere) |
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8. Act Naturally |
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9. Takin' Care Of Business - (with Randy Bachman) |
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10. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - (with Randy Bachman) |
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11. In The City - (with Joe Walsh) |
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12. Bang On The Drum All Day - (with Todd Rundgren) |
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13. Black Maria - (with Todd Rundgren) |
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14. American Woman - (with Burton Commings) |
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15. Weight Of The World |
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16. Back Off Boogaloo |
DISC 3:
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1. Yellow Submarine |
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2. Devil Came From Kansas - (with Gary Brooker) |
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3. Show Me The Way - (with Peter Frampton) |
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4. Sunshine Of Your Love - (with Jack Bruce) |
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5. Shooting Star - (with Simon Kirke) |
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6. Boys |
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7. Baby, I Love Your Way - (with Peter Frampton) |
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8. Salty Dog - (with Gary Brooker) |
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9. I Feel Free - (with Jack Bruce) |
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10. Alright Now - (with Simon Kirke) |
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11. I Wanna Be Your Man |
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12. Whiter Shade Of Pale - (with Gary Brooker) |
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13. Conquistador - (with Gary Brooker) |
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14. With A Little Help From My Friends |
Beatles' Book Comes Together
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April 3, 2000 — Dear Sir or Madam, will you read their book? It took them years to write, won't you take a look?
Yes, the three surviving Beatles have turned into Hardback Writers to set the record straight on the Fab Four's oft-analyzed history, releasing their first-ever "autobiography" this fall. After watching self-professed Beatles experts spout off on the legendary quartet's true story, remaining mop-tops Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have collaborated on Beatles' Anthology.
Six years in the works, the 360-page tome will reportedly sell for about $80 and provide the most detailed (and firsthand) account of the band's roots--not to mention some 1,200 photographs--in a hardback edition that's described as "the size of an edition of Encyclopedia Britannica." Their story joins a glut of Beatles books already on the market, from stories by early John and Paul bandmates, to hardcore fans' personal memoirs and discographies.
"It will dispel some of the myths...as every Tom, Dick and uncle of a friend has been writing books on the Beatles since 1963," McCartney was quoted in London's Sunday Telegraph. For instance, the book reportedly counters the onetime belief that Paul wanted the band to split up, saying that the late fourth Beatle John Lennon actually was the first to jump ship (though Beatlemaniacs will tell you that's old news). And it provides a few other previously unknown tidbits--like a $175 million offer that the threesome rejected in 1996 to play 17 concerts in the U.S., Germany and Japan. "We're talking a huge volume of work, it's encyclopedic--it weighs something like two kilos [4.4 pounds]," says Geoff Baker, McCartney's spokesman. "It goes across the board, everything is in there. It is about the Beatles as a band, the music, but it deals with everything else--the tours, the drugs, the disputes," Baker adds. "The book answers all the questions."
The firsthand "Beatles bible" was originally announced in 1996 with a release date one year later. And although it was once reported that Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, collaborated on their ticket to write, the Sunday Telegraph reports that she was not directly involved with the book. She will, however, get a quarter share of the profits. Some of the initial wordsmith work also reportedly was done by the band's late press officer, Derek Taylor, who died in 1997. Fans have taken their excitement to the Beatles-devoted sites, but most wondered aloud what the new book would say that "true" fans don't already know. "It doesn't really sound as if anything revealed in this book will shock or surprise longtime fans," one speculates. "But it will still prove to be an interesting trip."
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