а тем временем на сайте журнала ROLLING STONE очередная репортажная заметка о гастролях Ринго по Америке, где среди прочего констатируется:
he’s stuck with Toto’s Steve Lukather since 2012, Men at Work’s Colin Hay since 2018, and Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart since 2019.
They’ve become the closest thing he’s had to a consistent band since the Beatles, and they all “pass the baton” throughout the nights by singing their three biggest hits. It creates a fantastically surreal set where Toto’s “Rosanna,” Average White Band’s “Pick Up the Pieces,” and Men at Work’s “Down Under” were played in unison, with Ringo on drums.
They have this set down to a science at this point, and it’s a joy to watch Hay assist Lukather on the high parts of “Africa” (“It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you/There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do”), and Stuart gleefully sing along to “Who Can It Be Now?” and “Hold the Line.”
Starr is just four years shy of his 90th birthday, but he played drums on practically every song where he didn’t sing lead, and somehow had the energy to do jumping jacks at the end of “With a Little Help From My Friends” before sprinting offstage, and running back to sing a coda of John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance.” Scientists need to study Starr to discover the secrets of longevity.
the crowd shrieked every time Ringo took the mic and a white-haired lady perched near the front — waving a giant sign that she was there in ’64 — shook her hips along to the music for two consecutive hours. There was nothing “contrived” about her reaction to this music in 1964, 2026, or any point in between. Something fundamental about our world changed when the Beatles arrived in 1964, and the reverberations will continue forever.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/ringo-starr-forest-hills-stadium-...очень уважительно и с симпатией
