Written by: Richard Starkey, Bruce Sugar
Recorded: 2023
Producer: Ringo Starr
Released: 13 October 2023
Available on:
Rewind Forward EP
Personnel
Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, percussion
Joe Walsh, Steve Dudas: guitar
Matt Bissonette: bass guitar
Bruce Sugar: keyboards
Kipp Lennon, Marky Lennon: vocals
‘Rewind Forward’ is the third song on Ringo Starr’s 2023 EP Rewind Forward.
‘Rewind Forward’ was something I said out of the blue — it’s just one of those lines like ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. It just came to me. But it doesn’t really make sense. I was trying to explain it to myself and the best I can tell you about what it means is: Sometimes when you want to go forward you have to go back first.
Ringo Starr
One of my producers said, ‘We need a song with ‘rewind’ in it.’ ‘Rewind’ is a great word, but I don’t want to be in the past, so out of nowhere, I said ‘rewind forward.’ My mouth is faster than my brain. All my life, strange things like that have come out, like the phrase ‘hard day’s night.’ There were rumors John Lennon used to follow me around with his pen and pencil, waiting to hear what I’d say next. I said, ‘This is all people will talk about. They’ll keep asking me what it means.’ And it means that you rewind to a space that was happy, and then you go forward. Which makes perfect sense now. [Laughs.]