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…

Journey performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 31, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — With more than a hundred years of cumulative shredding between them, guitarists Steve Lukather and Neal Schon brought their legendary bands Toto and Journey to Chase Center Thursday for some frenetic fretwork. The blistering…

The year 1982 was very good, and not just because it’s when a certain columnist who writes a weekly list of a year’s best songs was born. It’s the year Prince released 1999 and Michael Jackson released Thriller. Now, I’m not going to get into the whole Prince vs. Michael debate. I can…