UK album release: Ringo by Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr’s third solo album, Ringo, was released in the United Kingdom on 23 November 1973.

Ringo is most notable for featuring all four former Beatles, although not all on any single song. John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr featured on the Lennon-penned song ‘I’m The Greatest’. Harrison co-wrote and performed on three other songs, while Paul McCartney wrote and performed on ‘Six O’Clock’ and played kazoo on ‘You’re Sixteen’.

In America the single ‘Photograph’ was released ahead of the album, on 24 September. The b-side was ‘Down And Out’. The single was released in the UK on 19 October, several weeks after the album. A promotional clip was made at Starr’s Tittenhurst Park home, although it was shown just once on the BBC television show Top Of The Pops.

The album topped the charts in Canada, Spain and Sweden, and was a top 10 hit in Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Japan, the US and UK. It was kept off the top spot on the US Billboard 200 by Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, although it topped the Cashbox and Record World charts.