The Beatles, album "Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Volume 2: Live from Montreux"

Concert albums - Studio Rykodisc - 1993
stereo: 13.09.1993

Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Volume 2: Live from Montreux

1. 02:00 The Really Serious Introduction

2. 03:29 I'm The Greatest (John Lennon) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr

3. 04:28 Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go (Richard Starkey, Johnny Warman and Gary Grainger) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr

4. 04:11 Yellow Submarine (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr - 01.06.1966

   PAUL 1966: 'It's a happy place, that's all.
   You know, it was just… We were trying to write a children's song.
   That was the basic idea.
   And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.'

   JOHN 1972: 'Paul wrote the catchy chorus.
   I helped with the blunderbuss bit.'

   JOHN 1980: ''Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby.
   Donovan helped with the lyrics.
   I helped with the lyrics too.
   We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration.
   Paul's idea.
   Paul's title… written for Ringo.'

   PAUL 1984: 'I wrote that in bed one night.
   As a kid's story.
   And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do.'

   PAUL circa-1994: 'I was laying in bed in the Asher's garret, and there's a nice twilight zone just as you're drifting into sleep and as you wake from it – I always find it quite a comfortable zone.
   I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea… I was thinking of it as a song for Ringo, which it eventually turned out to be, so I wrote it as not too rangey in the vocal.
   I just made up a little tune in my head, then started making a story – sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived.
   It was pretty much my song as I recall… I think John helped out.
   The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine.'

   GEORGE 1999: 'Paul came up with the concept of 'Yellow Submarine.' All I know is just that every time we'd all get around the piano with guitars and start listening to it and arranging it into a record, we'd all fool about.
   As I said, John's doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship's funnel as they do in the merchant marine.
   (laughs) And on the final track there's actually that very small party happening! As I seem to remember, there's a few screams and what sounds like small crowd noises in the background.'

5. 02:58 Desperado (Don Henley and Glenn Frey) - Lead Vocal by Joe Walsh

6. 05:10 I Can't Tell You Why (Timothy B. Schmit, Don Henley and Glenn Frey) - Lead Vocal by Timothy B. Schmit

7. 03:30 Girls Talk (Elvis Costello) - Lead Vocal by Dave Edmunds

8. 03:36 Weight Of The World (Brian O'Doherty and Fred Velez) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr

9. 03:34 Bang The Drum All Day (Todd Rundgren) - Lead Vocal by Todd Rundgren

10. 04:28 Walking Nerve (Nils Lofgren) - Lead Vocal by Nils Lofgren

11. 05:31 Black Maria (Todd Rundgren) - Lead Vocal by Todd Rundgren

12. 04:56 In The City (Joe Walsh and Barry DeVorzon) - Lead Vocal by Joe Walsh

13. 05:59 American Woman (Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson and Jim Kale) - Lead Vocal by Burton Cummings

14. 03:51 Boys (Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr

15. 07:08 With a Little Help from My Friends (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) - Lead Vocal by Ringo Starr - 30.03.1967

    JOHN 1970: 'Paul had the line about 'a little help from my friends.' He had some kind of structure for it, and we wrote it pretty well fifty-fifty from his original idea.'

    JOHN 1980: 'That's Paul, with a little help from me.
    'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine' is mine.'

    PAUL circa-1994: 'This was written out at John's house in Weybridge for Ringo… I think that was probably the best of our songs that we wrote for Ringo actually.
    I remember giggling with John as we wrote the lines, 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine.' It could have been him playing with his willie under the covers, or it could have been taken on a deeper level.
    This is what it meant but it was a nice way to say it – a very non-specific way to say it.
    I always liked that.'