Ringo Starr, “Look Up.” There’s no questioning Beatles great Ringo Starr’s commitment to the bit on his 21st solo album, Look Up. The drummer finds a little Southern comfort on the country-influenced record with help from the likes of Alison Krauss, Billy Strings and producer T-Bone Burnett. Not unlike…

Original: The Beatles photographed at St. Pancras Old Church gardens in London on July 28, 1968. Courtesy. So the Beatles are releasing their new single this week. I do know it’s 2023 and half of them are dead. I don’t care. Well, I don’t want them to be dead.…

Peter Frampton performs at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California on Oct. 12, 2019. Karen Goldman/STAFF. In his 2020 autobiography, Peter Frampton declared that when he makes up his mind, “that’s it.” The iconic guitarist and writer of songs like “Show Me the Way” and “Baby, I Love Your…

Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band perform at the Masonic in San Francisco on June 11, 2023. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Ringo Starr had a smart idea when he started his All-Starr Band in the late ’80s. Rather than solely covering the songs his former bandmates sang in…

Eddie Vedder, “Earthling.” It could easily be said that Eddie Vedder is one lucky man, even if he likely makes his own luck. Earthling Eddie Vedder Seattle Surf/Republic, Feb. 11 8/10 He’s one of the last living frontmen of the great Pacific Northwest rock bands of the early ’90s, in…

Insert Foot is loving Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles documentary. Phone lines and the internet burned all over the world this week, and it wasn’t people remarking how lifelike tofurkey tastes in 2021. The hubbub was about four guys playing music more than half a century ago, as well as…

Zak Starkey and Sshh Liguz are SSHH. Photos: Celine Teo-Blockey LOS ANGELES – It’s three days after the election and President-elect Donald Trump is about to head out to the White House. I, meanwhile, am at the Hollywood Hills bungalow that Zak Starkey and his longtime partner, Sshh Liguz,…