Ringo Starr

I love the Beatles. And I love most of what the four of them have done separately in the fifty years (!) since they parted ways.

But this? This is "scraping the bottom of the barrel" material. There's the odd interesting photograph here, but the stories are mostly banal, just like the majority of the photos. Photos, I might add, that are mostly quick, tossed off phone camera shots.

Yes, the book dresses them up nicely, and gets all arty by putting the same photo multiple times on a single show more page, or sometimes across a spread (and in some cases, just repeating the damn photo later on in the book). But really, this is putting lipstick on a very average looking pig.

I loved Ringo's first book, but this one is a total waste of money. show less

A lovely book that mostly details Ringo and those around him from the time he started drumming through to the end of the Beatles, with some additional photos bookending that period.

Written in Ringo's down-to-earth conversational style, the words and images are an absolute pleasure, and there's some really lovely pictures that I've never seen anywhere of the boys.

Excellent collection.

Definitely not an autobiography or really a memoir. But it is Richard Starkey being very candid about relationships and history in a series of anecdotes revolving around postcards he received from John, Paul and George and others. Very fun and too short.

This is like looking at an album of photographs with a friend: they might be out of focus or the place has been forgotten, but they all show the life of a guy who is happy to look back at his life. Because of his nature Ringo was always my favourite Beatle. His sunny temperament was obvious in this collection. Reading over his shoulder, so to speak, was a pleasure.