Not Looking Back

Written by: Richard Starkey, Richard Marx
Recorded: 2014–2015
Producer: Ringo Starr

Released: 31 March 2015

Available on:
Postcards From Paradise

Personnel

Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, percussion
Richard Marx: guitar, vocals
David A Stewart: guitars
Nathan East: bass guitar
Bruce Sugar: synthesizer
Benmont Tench: piano
Ann Marie Simpson: violin
Amy Keys, Windy Wagner, Richard Page: vocals

‘Not Looking Back’ is the sixth song on Ringo Starr’s 18th solo studio album, 2015’s Postcards From Paradise.

Along with ‘Right Side Of The Road’, it was one of two songs on the album co-written by Starr and Richard Marx.

It applies to how I look at the world and applies to my life now. I am looking forward and though I do look back I don’t live in the past. Richard and I wrote two songs together, ‘Not Looking Back’ and ‘Right Side Of The Road’. My start was walking on the right side of the wrong side of the road but then you’re walking on the right side and on the right side of the road, so it was an expression of joy. Richard had the start of ‘Not Looking Back’. For him it was more of a separation song and then we stared writing it. It may have gone somewhere else if it was his record, but it was my record and I wanted it to be more positive, that we’re still here and we’re looking forward. We’re not looking back. Barbara and I had been through 35 years of life together and we’re looking forward still.