Back Off Boogaloo
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| "Back Off Boogaloo" | ||
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| Single by Ringo Starr | ||
| Released | 17 March 1972 | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | Parlophone | |
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| Ringo Starr singles chronology | ||
| "It Don't Come Easy" (1971) |
"Back Off Boogaloo" (1972) |
"Photograph" (1973) |
"Back Off Boogaloo" is a Ringo Starr single from 1972, and one of his most successful. The phrase came from musician Marc Bolan. Ringo recorded a new version of the song in 1981,which can be heard on his album Stop and Smell the Roses.
Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles fame, recently accused Scottish rock group Franz Ferdinand of plagiarising the riff from "Back Off Boogaloo" for their hit Take Me Out.
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