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SUN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Starr talks about new song dedicated to George Harrison

Тема: Ринго Старр - Ringo Rama (2003)

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SUN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Starr talks about new song dedicated to George Harrison
Автор: Sweet Little Queen XIII   Дата: 18.03.03 12:09:31
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By JANE STEVENSON
Toronto Sun
LOS ANGELES -- Ringo Starr says it wasn't that difficult writing a song about fellow Beatle George Harrison, who passed away after a long battle with cancer in November 2001.

Starr's new solo album, Ringo Rama, which hits stores one week from tomorrow, contains a new Harrison tribute, Never Without You.

"I was happy to do it, because it was a great way to express joy and loss, and it was the best way I could do it -- with a song," a tanned, trim and jovial Starr, 62, told The Toronto Sun in an exclusive Canadian newspaper interview at a Beverly Hills hotel.

"We started the album last year, in February, three or four months after he died, so it was to the fore that he'd gone. But where we started the song (starts singing), 'We were young, it was fun ...' it automatically went to the group, to The Beatles.

"And then I was trying to put John Lennon in to say 'Hi, John,' and Harry Nillson. But it just got too messy and George was on my mind. So we decided, 'Let's stop all this. Just make this for George.'

"And when we decided that, then we could tailor it more. Then I put in all those lines that George wrote. 'Within you, without you,' is from his song. And so we took artistic licence, which expressed more than I could ever say. And that's how it was. And it was really a great way to have some closure."

But Starr still needed a major guitar presence on the track.

"On all my records, George has been on a track with that great guitar. It was always so emotional, his guitar. So who else could play the guitar? Eric (Clapton). They were good friends. We're all good friends, so I asked Eric to play and he said, 'Yeah.' "

Never Without You is, quite naturally, the new album's first single, although Starr was initially against taking that route.

LAST EMOTIONAL MEETING

"I was trying to release anything but that -- you know, just how you get," says the drummer. "And they said, 'It doesn't matter what you want to release. This is the one (radio's) going to play.' And they're right -- those buggers."

The night before The Sun sat down with Starr, he appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and told of his last emotional meeting with Harrison in Switzerland about six weeks before he died. Although Harrison himself was bedridden and weak, he offered to go with Starr to visit his daughter in hospital. She was also battling cancer, and has since recovered.

When I ask Starr about that story the next day, he was clearly surprised at himself for telling it and didn't want to elaborate.

"It was personal, but that's how George was," says Starr. "And that's what happened at my last meeting with George. And I don't want to have to repeat it."

Starr was, however, effusive on the star-studded memorial concert for Harrison held last November, on the first anniversary of his death, at London's Royal Albert Hall. Among the attendees at the Clapton-organized affair were Starr, Paul McCartney, Billy Preston, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Ravi Shankar. There are plans to release the concert as a DVD by the end of this year.

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"It was great," says Starr. "Because you were hanging out with all those guys who knew George, who loved George and George loved them. We all had our stories, we were playing his music. It was a good feeling, the whole thing, for me. One of the things that was special was that there was no one on stage that George didn't like. We hadn't just made phone calls and dragged people in for their star value. It was people who knew him and that was it.

"And Eric did an incredible job. Eric was brilliant. He got all those great guys together, and I kept saying, 'Well, let's do New York next week. Let's do L.A. Let's go to Toronto.' But of course everybody's got stuff to do."

Naturally Starr will play Never Without You when he hits the road in late July with the latest incarnation of his All Star Band, which includes Sheila E. and Men At Work's Colin Hay among others.

As he did with his last tour, Starr will rehearse at Orillia's Casino Rama for a couple of weeks in July before launching his two-month North American jaunt with two shows at the venue, July 24-25.

"It's a great venue to rehearse 'cause there's not a lot happening out there -- as you well know, being Canadian," he says, with that famous wry chuckle. "It's a good deal for me that we go there. It's a great space. The people there are always kind. And they look out for us and that's good."

On the back of the Ringo Rama album is a huge image of Starr's hand making the peace sign with the words "Peace and love."

"Somebody asked me about peace and love and I say, 'I keep doing peace and love, because for a second you think, 'Peace and love.' And one day, one year, the whole world for a minute is going to think 'Peace and love.' You just have to keep doing what you do and see what happens."

He has family and friends and two homes in England. He has other homes in Monte Carlo and L.A. and Colorado. But Starr says he's not consumed by the thought of war.

"I'm not worried about it, no," he says. "Of course I think about it. It's a shame that it's happening and a lot of mothers are going to lose their sons. It's just a fact of life. I wish there was another way, but this is what's happening.

"I'm not a politician. I'm a musician. I do this my way. I keep saying 'Peace and love.' They want to say something else, that's up to them. It's called democracy."

Still, there are clearly vestiges of The Beatles' now-famous 1967 involvement with Transcendental Meditation and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which took the group to India for two months in 1968.

Incense burns in Starr's hotel room and one of his two rings -- his wedding band is the other one -- is astrology-based and made up of gems aligned with his planets. "It's an Indian thing," he explains.

When I go to say goodbye, he gives me a hug. (I can count on one hand how many interview subjects have ever done that.)

His solo career aside, Starr's profile as the Beatles' drummer is also about to get a major boost with the release of the Fab Four's Anthology DVD on April 1. It will be followed by the October re-release of the group's 1970 album, Let It Be, without Phil Spector's elaborate production.

"I'd done the Anthology a couple of years ago, and then they call up saying, 'Well, we've got more anthology,' and I said, 'Well, haven't we done the Anthology?' " recalls Starr.

'UN-SPECTORIZED'

"They had more footage and so it's a DVD. There's just more information. That's just the deal. You can put more information out. So we put more of Paul, George and I talking, more of us playing. There's stuff on Joe Pykta, the director, about Free As A Bird. People are interested in that information. So now you have Disc Five."

As for the bare-bones version of Let It Be, Starr is thrilled that's going to see the light of day.

"Last year was the first time I'd heard it 'un-Spectorized,' and it's great!" he says.

"Not that it wasn't good with Phil, but it's just great. It's not something we always wanted to do, but if you look at CD-land, we're re-releasing everything we did. We thought, 'Well, let's hear it stripped-down,' and it sounds great.

"It's more us being the band again. I can't have enough of that band -- they're really good," he says with a big smile. (More on Ringo Starr)


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