Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna (1974)

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Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

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Artist...............: Ringo Starr

Album................: Goodnight Vienna

Genre................: Rock

Source...............: NMR

Year.................: 1974

Ripper...............: NMR

Codec................: FhG

Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III

Quality..............: CBR 192, (avg. bitrate: 192kbps)

Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz

Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3

Information..........:



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:02:35) Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

2. (00:02:56) Ringo Starr - Occapella

3. (00:03:46) Ringo Starr - Oo-Wee

4. (00:03:36) Ringo Starr - Husbands and Wives

5. (00:03:29) Ringo Starr - Snookeroo

6. (00:03:24) Ringo Starr - All My Myself

7. (00:04:08) Ringo Starr - Call Me

8. (00:02:34) Ringo Starr - No No Song

9. (00:03:27) Ringo Starr - Only You (And You Alone)

10. (00:02:24) Ringo Starr - Easy For Me

11. (00:01:21) Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna (reprise)

12. (00:03:22) Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo

13. (00:02:46) Ringo Starr - Blindman

14. (00:05:23) Ringo Starr - Six O'Clock (Extended Version)



Playing Time.........: 00:45:11

Total Size...........: 62.09 MB



NFO generated on.....: 7/30/2008 8:12:00 AM





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Goodnight Vienna is the fourth solo album by Ringo Starr. It was recorded in

the summer of 1974 in Los Angeles, and released later that year. It followed

the commercially successful predecessor "Ringo", and Starr used many of the

same players, including Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Robbie Robertson,

Harry Nilsson, and producer Richard Perry.



However, while all three other Beatles had contributed to Ringo, only John

Lennon contributed to Goodnight Vienna. Like "Ringo", Goodnight Vienna also

became a hit, though a slightly less successful one.



An advance single from the album, Starr's cover version of The Platters' "Only

You (And You Alone)", reached #6 on the U.S. charts, before the album was

released in November. Goodnight Vienna peaked at #8 in the US, ultimately

going gold, and its reviews were generally favorable. A second single, "No No

Song" reached #3 in the American charts. However, the album reached only

#30 in the UK, and would be Starr's last chart album in his homeland until

1998.



The cover artwork for Goodnight Vienna was based on a still from the classic

science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Starr's head replacing

that of actor Michael Rennie. Rennie's character was the alien Klaatu, a name

later adopted by a Canadian band falsely rumoured to be the Beatles under a

pseudonym. In the movie, Klaatu had come to Earth to deliver the message

that the entire planet needed to adopt peaceful ways, a message that

comports with Ringo's personal mantra "peace and love.