Time Takes Time

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Time Takes Time
Time Takes Time cover
Studio album by Ringo Starr
Released 22 May 1992
Recorded February -
September 1991 &
February 1992
Genre Rock
Length 40:04
Label Private Music
Producer Don Was, Jeff Lynne,
Peter Asher
and Phil Ramone
Professional reviews
Ringo Starr chronology
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
(1990)		 Time Takes Time
(1992)		 Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Volume 2: Live From Montreux
(1993)

Time Takes Time is Ringo Starr's 1992 critically acclaimed comeback album. His first studio album since 1983's Old Wave, it followed a successful 1989/1990 world tour with his All-Starr Band. Aligning himself with top producers Don Was, Peter Asher, Phil Ramone and Jeff Lynne, the album was recorded sporadically throughout 1991. The material was written predominantly by outside writers, with Ringo co-writing three songs. Time Takes Time features several celebrity guests including Brian Wilson ,Harry Nilsson and former ELO frontman Lynne. Time Takes Time also marked Starr's first alliance with Mark Hudson[1], both of whom would embark on a long-term musical partnership in the ensuing years. Hudson assisted in vocal arrangements on some of the Phil Ramone-produced tracks.


Several tracks were left off the album.[2] A Paul McCartney song entitled "Angel In Disguise", to which Ringo added a verse, has not seen the light of day.[2] Ringo covered the Elvis Presley hit "Don't Be Cruel" which was instead issued as the B-side of the "Weight Of The World" CD single (except in Japan). Another outtake, "Everyone Wins", was issued in Germany as the vinyl B-side of the "Don't Go Where The Rod Don't Go" single. Two more outtakes that never saw the light of day (to date)were a Phil Picket song "Love Is Going To Get You" , produced by Phil Ramone, and the Jeff Lynne produced "Call Me". Lynne told journalist Peter Palmiere as part of a DISCoveries cover story on Ringo that "Call Me" will never be released at anytime anywhere.[citation needed] Although Starr recorded and released a song on Goodnight Vienna entitled "Call Me", it bares no resemblance to the Jeff Lynne-produced number.


Well-received upon release, many critics considered Time Takes Time Starr's best album since 1973's "Ringo". Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "The drummer's most consistent, wide-awake album since Ringo, from 1973". [3] The release was met with some indifference by the public however, and thus failed to chart. However, lead single "Weight Of The World" managed to reach #74 in the UK, giving Starr his first single entry there since "Only You (And You Alone)" in 1974.


Time Takes Time has sold about 70,000 copies in America since its release although Private Music before they folded claimed[specify] sales figures a little over 200,000 in the United States. Times Takes Time was the last Ringo Starr album on vinyl, though only in Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Germany.


Despite an All-Starr tour in 1992 to promote the album, Time Takes Time would be Ringo Starr's only album with Private Music before he was dropped from their roster. It was also deleted a few years after its release.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Weight Of The World" (Brian O'Doherty/Fred Velez) – 3:54
  2. "Don't Know A Thing About Love" (Richard Feldman/Stan Lynch) – 3:49
    • Produced by Don Was
  3. "Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman/Gary Grainger) – 3:20
  4. "Golden Blunders" (Jonathan Auer/Kenneth Stringfellow) – 4:06
  5. "All In The Name Of Love" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:42
  6. "After All These Years" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman) – 3:10
    • Produced by Jeff Lynne
    • features only Starr and Jeff Lynne
  7. "I Don't Believe You" (Andy Sturmer/Roger Manning) – 2:48
    • Produced by Don Was
  8. "Runaways" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman) – 4:51
    • Produced by Phil Ramone
    • special guest appearance by Harry Nilsson
  9. "In A Heartbeat" (Diane Warren) – 4:29
    • Produced by Don Was
    • background vocals feature Brian Wilson
  10. "What Goes Around" (Rick Suchow) – 5:50
    • Produced by Don Was

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Time Takes Time album credits, Private Music release 212902
  2. ^ a b Clayson, Alan "Ringo Starr: Straight Man Or Joker", Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd. 1998 p.334
  3. ^ Parke Puterbaugh, rollingstone.com
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