Tour 2003

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Tour 2003
Tour 2003 cover
Live album by Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
Released 23 March 2004
Recorded 24 July 2003
Genre Rock
Length 68:14
Label Koch
Professional reviews
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band chronology
Ringo Rama
(2003)		 Tour 2003
(2004)		 Choose Love
(2005)

Tour 2003 is a live album by Ringo Starr and was released in 2004. After releasing Ringo Rama in 2003, Starr embarked once more with his All-Starr Band and its ever-changing collective of musicians that summer.

The performance included here is from the opening night of his tour at the Casino Rama, just outside Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Despite this, the CD booklet for Tour 2003 confusingly carries a review for a later August show in Detroit. As ever, the line-up of Starr's celebrity companions has changed once again. Bandleader Mark Rivera remains, as does singing percussionist Sheila E. New to the mix are Paul Carrack of Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics fame, Colin Hay from Australian band Men at Work and John Waite, a solo artist who also had fronted The Babys and Bad English. Having already exhausted the appearances of most of his 1960s and 1970s contemporaries, Starr's new participants clearly add a strong 1980s element to Tour 2003, giving this recording a different edge. While Starr typically performs his well-known hits from his heyday, he does venture here to include "Memphis In Your Mind" from Ringo Rama.

Although another competent performance is captured on Tour 2003, critics were quick to note that this live album was Starr's seventh official release of the sort in fourteen years. Because of the perceived lack of necessity for its existence, and the fact the performers hail from a musical period that followed Starr's musical peak, Tour 2003 generally received lackluster reviews upon release, and consequently, failed to chart at all.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "It Don't Come Easy" (Richard Starkey) – 3:44
  2. "Honey Don't" (Carl Perkins) – 2:59
  3. "Memphis In Your Mind" (Richard Starkey/Mark Hudson/Gary Burr/Steve Dudas/Dean Grakal) – 4:23
  4. "How Long?" (Paul Carrack) – 4:45
  5. "Down Under" (Ron Strykert/Colin Hay) – 4:25
  6. "When I See You Smile" (Diane Warren) – 4:52
  7. "A Love Bizarre" (Pete Escovedo) – 4:05
  8. "Boys" (Luther Dixon/Wes Farrell) – 3:04
  9. "Don't Pass Me By" (Richard Starkey) – 4:02
  10. "Yellow Submarine" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 3:11
  11. "The Living Years" (Mike Rutherford/B.A. Robertson) – 6:25
  12. "Missing You" (John Waite/Mark Leonard/Charles Sandford) – 4:18
  13. "The Glamorous Life" (Prince) – 4:49
  14. "I Wanna Be Your Man" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 3:25
  15. "Who Can It Be Now" (Colin Hay) – 4:00
  16. "With A Little Help From My Friends" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) – 5:36

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