It's June of 1983 and there's a new Ringo Starr album out...but for the first time since his meteoric rise to fame with his fellow fab four, this album is not available in the US market. It's the Joe Walsh-produced Old Wave LP, and as musicianship, quality and material goes it would be one of Ringo's finest efforts to date. But with Starr struggling to recapture his successes of the early and mid-70s, faith in Ringo's commercial viability was at an all-time low...reflected ultimately in his struggles to find a label to release his latest solo effort. Wonderful tracks such as In My Car, As Far As We Can Go and Be My Baby would go largely unlistened to by the record buying public, and Ringo's recording woes remained intact. With fall approaching, another solo Beatles album lay in wait on the horizon, this time with the complete opposite of commercial results...

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