Bad Boy (album)
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| Studio album by Ringo Starr | ||
| Released | 16 June 1978 | |
| Recorded | December 1977 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 34:27 | |
| Label | Polydor (UK) Portrait/Sony Music (US) |
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| Producer(s) | Vini Poncia | |
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| Ringo Starr chronology | ||
| Ringo the 4th (1977) |
Bad Boy (1978) |
Stop and Smell the Roses (1981) |
Bad Boy is an album by Ringo Starr, based on Billy Flanagan, and was released in 1978 during a period where his musical career was sliding into freefall after several years of solo success. Although Bad Boy was meant to reverse this trend, Starr's fortunes dwindled further.
After the critical and commercial disaster of Ringo the 4th (1977), Starr and his musical partner, Vini Poncia, decided to create a less campy album and streamline the sound to lose the disco qualities and excesses that marred the previous release. Notably, Starr sounds much more sober on Bad Boy. With Poncia taking the production reigns, Starr mostly relies on other people's songs, with no celebrity guests to be found.
The results, while comparatively an improvement, were still below par for Starr, resulting in another flop album, with Bad Boy only reaching #129 in the US, despite the airing of a prime time TV special entitled Ognir Rrats ('Ringo Starr' backwards). Polydor Records, after three consecutive non-charters in the UK, promptly dropped Starr, while his new US label, Portrait Records (who picked him up after Atlantic Records had dropped him) would eventually cancel his contract in 1981 during the making of his next album.
Bad Boy was reissued on CD in the US by Epic Records in 1991 (after Portrait Records' shelving), now its only source of availability.
[edit] Track listing
- "Who Needs A Heart" (Richard Starkey/Vini Poncia) – 3:48
- "Bad Boy" (Lil Armstrong/Avon Long) – 3:14
- "Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)" (Naomi Neville) – 3:01
- "Heart On My Sleeve" (Benny Gallagher/Graham Lyle) – 3:20
- "Where Did Our Love Go (Eddie Holland/Lamont Dozier/Brian Holland) – 3:15
- "Hard Times" (Peter Skellern) – 3:31
- "Tonight" (Ian McLagan/John Pidgeon) – 2:56
- "Monkey See - Monkey Do" (Michael Franks) – 3:36
- "Old Time Relovin'" (Vini Poncia/Richard Starkey) – 4:16
- "A Man Like Me" (Ruan O'Lachainn) – 3:08
