Ringo Starr

I love the Beatles. And I love most of what the four of them have done separately in the fifty years (!) since they parted ways.

But this? This is "scraping the bottom of the barrel" material. There's the odd interesting photograph here, but the stories are mostly banal, just like the majority of the photos. Photos, I might add, that are mostly quick, tossed off phone camera shots.

Yes, the book dresses them up nicely, and gets all arty by putting the same photo multiple times on a single page, or sometimes across a spread (and in some cases, just repeating the damn photo later on in the book). But really, this is putting lipstick on a very average looking pig.

I loved Ringo's first book, but this one is a total waste of money.… (more)