You know it don’t come easy
Were Nick Denton a Brit, he’d still never have come up with anything as relentlessly snarky as hecklerspray, from whom I am compelled to reprint this commentary on the pending availability of downloadable Ringo Starr tracks:
Finally our lives will be complete. Every day since MP3s were invented we’ve howled in agony because we haven’t had the chance to pay 79p to hear Ringo Starr masterpieces like Coochy Coochy, Snookeroo and Gypsies In Flight. But now the wait is finally over — Ringo Starr has agreed to a deal putting his 1970s hit albums Ringo and Beaucoups Of Blues, along with a new Best Of compilation album, online across all digital music platforms. Rumours that this deal is worth in excess of £3.50, half a packet of Fruitella and several colourful ribbons are yet to be confirmed, but sound a little far-fetched at the moment.
It’s taken members of The Beatles an awful long time, but they’re all slowly coming round to the idea of their music being sold on digital formats. John Lennon is already slightly digital and Paul McCartney has recently gone digital as part of his campaign to be everywhere we look all the effing time, from every single branch of Starbucks to those annoying iTunes adverts where he dicks around playing the mandolin like an annoyingly smug pixie. George Harrison, we don’t know about. He isn’t answering his telephone.
Oh, and the Starr deal includes ringtones:
And at least one of those Ringo Starr ringtones had better be “(It’s All Da-Da-Down To) Goodnight Vienna,” because frankly not enough people smack us in the mouth when our phones go off in public.
Where’s Pete Best, anyway?
Emalyse »
20 June 2007 · 6:04 am
I just can’t wait to be able to download La-de-da with hopefully a matching ringtone!!. Isn’t technology wonderful?
Mister Snitch! »
21 June 2007 · 7:43 am
Was Ringo Starr named after Lorne Greene’s Ringo? Because that seems so, like, right.
(Oh wait, guess he wasn’t… In fact, ‘Ringo’ came along while Ringo Starr’s fame as a Beatle was happening. Well, guess there’s no point to this line of inquiry then. Unless maybe it’s to say that a ring tone that says ‘Ringo’ in Lorne Greene’s voice (with background chorus) might be pretty cool.)
Still, did you know that the name ‘Ringo’ in Japanese means ‘Apple, peace be with you’? No you didn’t. So stop telling me I’m wasting your time.
CGHill »
28 June 2007 · 8:08 pm
By coincidence, Rich Appel addresses this very issue in the latest Hz So Good.
In your best Lorne Greene voice:
He laid tracks down when the Beatles split
It’s a good thing the boys helped him out a bit
It Don’t Come Easy, that’s what he said
and sure enough, soon his career was dead
so it shouldn’t strike anyone as odd
the first Beatle for sale for your iPod
is Ringo.
Ringo,
Ringo.