Ringo Starr is setting out on another tour with his All-Star Band this summer, and it doesn’t sound like he has plans to stop anytime soon.
“What else am I going to do?” Ringo tells the U.K. paper The Times. “The band sounds great. We have a fun time and we just do it.”
Ringo and his All-Starr Band — Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men at Work‘s Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette and Buck Johnson — will hit the road starting June 12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
And Ringo has a perfectly good explanation for why he likes to surround himself with such A-list musicians.
“I only want to be in a band. I don’t want to be out on my own, ” he explains. “There’s no way you can go out there and do ‘Yesterday’ just on drums.”
Ringo just released the new country album Look Up, but he wants fans to know he doesn’t plan to fill his set with predominantly new songs.
“In the late ’90s, I would put in, like, two or three from the new album, and you could feel the room empty,” he says. “It happens to everybody.”
He then recalled seeing that happen at Elton John’s 1975 Wembley Stadium show supporting his then-new album Captain Fantastic. “I was with his mother. He came on and said, ‘I’m only going to do the new album,’” Starr shares. “Me and his mother left after three tracks because we didn’t know them.”
A complete list of Ringo dates can be found at RingoStarr.com.
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