Blast from Your Past
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| Compilation album by Ringo Starr | |||||
| Released | 12 December 1975 | ||||
| Recorded | June 1970 - August 1974 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 31:51 | ||||
| Label | Apple/EMI | ||||
| Producer | Pete Drake, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Richard Perry |
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Blast From Your Past is Ringo Starr's first official compilation album, released in 1975. It is also Starr's final release under his contract with EMI, and was the last album to be released on The Beatles' Apple Records label until the label was revived in the 1990s. In 1976, Starr would sign with Atlantic Records in the US and Polydor Records for the rest of the world with the hopes of continuing his successful career.
Encompassing material from 1970's Beaucoups of Blues to his succeeding hit albums, "Ringo" and Goodnight Vienna in 1973 and 1974 respectively, while also including single-only releases, Blast From Your Past provides a well-rounded overview to Starr's musical achievements as a solo artist thus far. Although it failed to chart in the UK (even with releasing "Oh My My" from "Ringo" as a UK single in early 1976), it reached #30 in the US.
Blast From Your Past was reissued on CD in 1987 and has - as of yet - not been upgraded or remastered. Nor is it likely to ever be upgraded or remastered, as all ten tracks on Blast from Your Past were included on Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo, Starr's 2007 career retrospective.
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- "You're Sixteen" (Bob Sherman/Richard Sherman) – 2:47
- "No-No Song" (Hoyt Axton/David Jackson) – 2:29
- "It Don't Come Easy" (Richard Starkey) – 3:02
- Previously a single release, Starr's first British and second American single, issued in April 1971
- "Photograph" (George Harrison/Richard Starkey) – 3:55
- "Back Off Boogaloo" (Richard Starkey) – 3:18
- Previously a single release, Starr's second (third in US), issued in March 1972
- "Only You (And You Alone)" (Buck Ram/Ande Rand) – 3:23
- "Beaucoups of Blues" (Buzz Rabin) – 2:32
- Starr's first solo single (in America, only) from the 1970 album of the same name
- "Oh My My" (Vini Poncia/Richard Starkey) – 4:17
- "Early 1970" (Richard Starkey) – 2:19
- Previously the B-Side to "It Don't Come Easy" in 1971.
- "I'm The Greatest" (John Lennon) – 3:22
The song "You're Sixteen" was the sole Ringo Starr track included in a promotional-only various artists compilation album entitled "The Greatest Music Ever Sold" (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), that was distributed to record stores during the 1976 Holiday season as part of Capitol's "Greatest Music Ever Sold" campaign that promoted 15 "Best Of" albums released by the record label.
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