Thank God For Music

Written by: Richard Starkey, Grant Michaels, Sam Hollander
Recorded: 2019
Producer: Ringo Starr

Released: 25 October 2019

Available on:
What’s My Name

Personnel

Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, percussion
Steve Lukather: electric guitar
Jim Cox: synth bass, piano, organ
Bruce Sugar: synth voice pad
Maxine Waters, Julia Waters: vocals

‘Thank God For Music’ is the eighth song on Ringo Starr’s 20th solo studio album, 2019’s What’s My Name.

It was co-written by Starr and American songwriter Sam Hollander, who also wrote the album track ‘Better Days’.

Sam Hollander is the best prize a boy could have. I didn’t know him. He didn’t know me. He told somebody he’d like to work with Ringo. That person told Bruce Grakal, my lawyer, who told me and I said, ‘I don’t know… All right, send him over. Let’s have a chat.’ We sat in my room in the house, and we’re chatting for about an hour. I say, ‘Let’s see what we’ve got going. There’s a guitar over there’ [He says] ‘I don’t play guitar.’ ‘No problem. We’ll go to the studio. Plenty of pianos.’ ‘I don’t play piano.’ I said, ‘OK. See you Friday, bring your guitarist.’ And that’s when we got ‘Thank God For Music.’ He had it started and I threw my [part] in.

He did bring a guitar player who played great piano. And so with the piano player and drums, we put the basic track down.