Talk More Talk: A Solo Beatles Videocast

07/07/2025

85 Years Young!

Peace, Love, and a Happy Birthday to Ringo

07/07/2025

07/07/2025

Happy 85th birthday, Ringo!

This is the title track from Ringo's latest album, "Look Up".

"Look Up" was written by Daniel Tashian and T Bone Burnett and was one of the three focus tracks (singles) from the "Look Up" album. Burnett was the album's producer, but he did get help from Tashian and Ringo's musical partner, Bruce Sugar. Ringo is playing drums and singing lead (naturally), and is joined by guest vocalist Molly Tuttle on harmonies, Paul Franklin on pedal steel guitar, Dennis Crouch on bass, Tashian on acoustic and electric guitar and woodblock and Burnett on electric guitar and six string bass,

"Look Up" was released by Lost Highway Records on January 10, 2025 and is Ringo's twenty-first solo studio album and his first since 2019's "What's My Name". (In between "What's My Name" and "Look Up", Ringo released five EPs of new material - "Zoom In" (2021), "Change The World" (2021), "EP3" (2022), "Rewind Forward" (2023) and "Crooked Boy" (2024).)

The official music video for Ringo Starr's "Look Up". Listen to Ringo Starr's new album 'Look Up' here: https://strm.to/LookUp Subscribe and ring the bell to...

07/07/2025

PEACE AND LOVE!!

Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr!

07/07/2025

Happy birthday, Ringo Starr.

I think this is one of the official promotional films made for "It Don't Come Easy", Ringo's first solo hit single. The picture quality is lousy and the tempo of the song is too fast, but for historical purposes..........
"It Don't Come Easy" was released by Apple Records as a 'stand alone' single on April 9, 1971 in the U.K. and April 16, 1971 in the U.S. "Early 1970" was the b-side. This was exactly one year after the Beatles break up became reality. "It Don't Come Easy" was the second solo single released by Ringo, following the title track of Ringo's second solo album, "Beaucoups Of Blues", which was issued as a single on Apple in October 1970.
Although the song's official writing credit was 'Richard Starkey', it was actually co-written by Ringo and George Harrison. It was Harrison who produced the song. The initial sessions for "It Don't Come Easy" occurred in early 1970 during the recording of Ringo's first solo album, "Sentimental Journey". Ringo returned to the song numerous times throughout 1970, with the final sessions taking place in October.

"It Don't Come Easy" featured Ringo on drums and lead vocals, George Harrison on guitar, Gary Wright on piano, Klaus Voormann on bass, Mal Evans on tambourine and Badfinger's Pete Ham and Tom Evans on backing vocals.

Happy birthday, Ringo Starr.

I think this is one of the official promotional films made for "It Don't Come Easy", Ringo's first solo hit single. The picture quality is lousy and the tempo of the song is too fast, but for historical purposes..........
"It Don't Come Easy" was released by Apple Records as a 'stand alone' single on April 9, 1971 in the U.K. and April 16, 1971 in the U.S. "Early 1970" was the b-side. This was exactly one year after the Beatles break up became reality. "It Don't Come Easy" was the second solo single released by Ringo, following the title track of Ringo's second solo album, "Beaucoups Of Blues", which was issued as a single on Apple in October 1970.
Although the song's official writing credit was 'Richard Starkey', it was actually co-written by Ringo and George Harrison. It was Harrison who produced the song. The initial sessions for "It Don't Come Easy" occurred in early 1970 during the recording of Ringo's first solo album, "Sentimental Journey". Ringo returned to the song numerous times throughout 1970, with the final sessions taking place in October.

"It Don't Come Easy" featured Ringo on drums and lead vocals, George Harrison on guitar, Gary Wright on piano, Klaus Voormann on bass, Mal Evans on tambourine and Badfinger's Pete Ham and Tom Evans on backing vocals.

Music video by Ringo Starr performing It Don't Come Easy.

05/07/2025

TOM FRANGIONE (Sirius/XM's Beatles Channel) returns to discuss the new radio series "HELP FROM MY FRIENDS-RINGO AND THE ALL-STARRS" for which Tom is the writer and MARK RIVERA (Ringo's Music Director for the All-Starrs) is hosting!.. The shows 3 times a week, premiering Mondays at 11am, repeating Thursdays at 1pm, Sundays at 5pm (eastern.)
Tom has also completed a more than 2-hour interview with RINGO covering his solo-discography which will result in a special to air on the Beatles channel in the near future!!! Tom talks at length about the experience speaking with Ringo for this increbile opportunity!
AND.....Tom also participates in a FAB FIVE show with us, naming 5 albums (1 Beatles, 1 from each solo-Beatle) that are his "go-to" albums for today, and explains why they are his choices!!!
As always a fun and interesting conversation with Tom on my channel, KEN MICHAELS RADIO. Please subscribe to the channel, share this, and comment on my You Tube page about this show! And thanks to all my subscribers!

Frequent guest Tom Frangione comes on the channel to discuss the 6th radio program he is involved with for the Beatles channel on Sirius/XM, either as host, ...

01/07/2025

In a special TRIBUTE TO JOEY MOLLAND, I had an incredible conversation with an all-star cast of friends and fans, some of whom worked with Joey. Coming off a great tribute concert at the Cutting Room, NYC organized by Ken Dashow from Q-104, we got BILLY J. KRAMER, great singer and part of the Beatles family, MARK HUDSON, who produced Joey's final and excellent album "BE TRUE TO YOURSELF" and DREW HILL, keyboardist for Beatles tribute band Liverpool that always performs at The Fest For Beatles Fans, JOHN BORACK, writer for GOLDMINE MAGAZINE, Beatles author ("BEATLES 100: ONE HUNDRED PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN BEATLES HISTORY" and Power-Pop expert and musician,) and my fellow co-host DARREN DeVIVO (Things We Said Today, Talk More Talk, and longtime DJ at New York's WFUV.)
It's all about Joey, Badfinger, our favorite songs of his, what it was like to work with him, his talents as a musician and songwriter, the tribute concert and more!
Thanks to everyone here for doing this. Another tremendous talent we lost recently, God bless Joey!

With Joey Molland’s recent passing (March 1,) we gathered together some friends and fans of Joey, some of whom performed in a tribute concert for Joey at The...

01/07/2025

Due to the 4th of July holiday this week, we will drop our latest episode next week. Stay tuned!

30/06/2025

I was thrilled to guest on Edward Crawford’s channel “Call Me Mr. Broadstreet” alongside Meagan RockRadio Paese and Sara Schmidt. We had a fascinating conversation about the future of Beatles collecting and much more! Check it out and let us know what you think!

Where we discuss The Future of Beatles Collecting, and of events themselves among other topics. They can be found on all social media platforms as well as th...

29/06/2025

Can't get enough talk about "VENUS AND MARS"? Join me with my special guest BEATLEY TONE (Beatley Tone Channel, Hand Across The Water Beatles podcast) who discusses why "VENUS AND MARS" is his favorite McCARTNEY/WINGS album, with lots of talk about WINGS as a band and Paul's solo-career. It's always great having a conversation with Tone, and please comment on the show after watching!!!
You can also catch the most recent epsiodes of THINGS WE SAID TODAY and TALK MORE TALK: A SOLO-BEATLES VIDEOCAST as we cover "VENUS AND MARS," which just celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its release!!!
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It’s always great to bring back BEATLEY TONE, host of his own YOU TUBE channel, and now co-host of the new Beatles podcast “Hands Across The Water.” With th...

23/06/2025

Listened to Toppermost of the Poppermost lately? We're coming out with new episodes! Check out our special episode paying tribute to Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, and join us for our journey through the April 1965 UK & US charts! Catch up on our website, and be sure to subscribe!