Tour 2003

Tour 2003
Live album by Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
Released	23 March 2004
Recorded	24 July 2003
Genre	Rock
Length	68:14
Label	Koch
Ringo Starr chronology
Extended Versions (2003) Tour 2003 (2004) Choose Love (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Essential Rock Discography	3/10[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Tour 2003 is a live album by Ringo Starr and was released in 2004. After releasing Ringo Rama in 2003, Starr embarked once more with his All-Starr Band and its ever-changing collective of musicians that summer.

The performance included here is from the opening night of his tour at the Casino Rama, just outside Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Despite this, the CD booklet for Tour 2003 confusingly carries a review for a later August show in Detroit. As ever, the line-up of Starr's celebrity companions has changed once again. Bandleader Mark Rivera remains, as does singing percussionist Sheila E. New to the mix are Paul Carrack of Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics fame, Colin Hay from Australian band Men at Work and John Waite, a solo artist who also had fronted The Babys and Bad English. Having already exhausted the appearances of most of his 1960s and 1970s contemporaries, Starr's new participants clearly add a strong 1980s element to Tour 2003, giving this recording a different edge. While Starr typically performs his well-known hits from his heyday, he does venture here to include "Memphis In Your Mind" from Ringo Rama.

Some critics were quick to note that this live album was Starr's seventh official release of the sort in fourteen years. Tour 2003 generally received lackluster reviews upon release. The release failed to chart.

Track listing

1. "It Don't Come Easy" (Richard Starkey) – 3:44
2. "Honey Don't" (Carl Perkins) – 2:59
3. "Memphis In Your Mind" (Starkey/Mark Hudson/Gary Burr/Steve Dudas/Dean Grakal) – 4:23
4. "How Long?" (Paul Carrack) – 4:45
   • Performed by Paul Carrack
5. "Down Under" (Ron Strykert/Colin Hay) – 4:25
   • Performed by Colin Hay
6. "When I See You Smile" (Diane Warren) – 4:52
   • Performed by John Waite
7. "A Love Bizarre" (Pete Escovedo) – 4:05
   • Performed by Sheila E.
8. "Boys" (Luther Dixon/Wes Farrell) – 3:04
9. "Don't Pass Me By" (Starkey) – 4:02
10. "Yellow Submarine" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:11
11. "The Living Years" (Mike Rutherford/B.A. Robertson) – 6:25
    • Performed by Paul Carrack
12. "Missing You" (John Waite/Mark Leonard/Charles Sandford) – 4:18
    • Performed by John Waite
13. "The Glamorous Life" (Prince) – 4:49
    • Performed by Sheila E.
14. "I Wanna Be Your Man" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:25
15. "Who Can It Be Now" (Hay) – 4:00
    • Performed by Colin Hay
16. "With a Little Help from My Friends" (Lennon–McCartney) – 5:36

References

1. Horowitz, Hal. Tour 2003 at AllMusic
2. Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 1028. ISBN 978-1-84195-827-9.
3. Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 777. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

External links

• Koch Records album website