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31 March 2008
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‘Back Off Boogaloo’ was a single released by Ringo Starr in 1972. It was co-written by Starr and George Harrison.
Well, I was great at writing two verses and a chorus – I’m still pretty good at that. Finishing songs is not my forte. I have written songs with 26 verses, ’cause I didn’t know how to end them! I started writing ‘Back Off Boogaloo’, then took it to George to help finish off. Same with ‘Photograph’ and ‘It Don’t Come Easy’.
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9.02am
14 June 2016
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I’m surprised there’s no thread for this song. It’s probably one of my favorite Ringo songs. I also quite like the 80’s rerecording on Stop And Smell The Roses with the Beatles medley in the back.
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9.07am
26 January 2017
Offline Did Ringo popularize the word Boogaloo? I’ve seen the word around a lot lately on TV and on the internet, and I also think of this Ringo song.
I also love the first version of this song, but not the second.
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11.21am
28 March 2014
Offline Ya, it’s one of my 5 fav Ringo songs too….. 
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12.39pm
18 July 2018
Offline This song, or at least the titular lyric, has never been more appropriate than these days, with all the unrest. Wake up meat head, for sure.
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5.32pm
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1 May 2011
Offline The Now music channels play some odd solo-Beatles tracks and this was one of them a while back. It still surprises me that it came on.
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9.00am
2 May 2013
Offline sir walter raleigh said
Did Ringo popularize the word Boogaloo? I’ve seen the word around a lot lately on TV and on the internet, and I also think of this Ringo song.I also love the first version of this song, but not the second.
I understand it was a regular saying of Marc Bolan, who Ringo directed in the 1972 film ‘Born to Boogie’ and that was the germination of the song.
11.03pm
4 September 2019
Offline This is one of Ringo’s better songs, and George’s slide guitar is wicked.
But when I hear this, I can’t help but think of the “naughty” version the kids used to sing in the schoolyard back in the ’70s (replace the first B with a J). Does anyone else remember that? I doubt that it was a purely local thing.
