{"id":340696,"date":"2026-05-31T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:50:11","slug":"ringo-starrs-sold-out-san-diego-show-had-a-trick-most-legacy-acts-cant-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340696\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr\u2019s Sold-Out San Diego Show Had a Trick Most Legacy Acts Can\u2019t Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ringo Starr brought Beatles memories to San Diego, but his sold-out night at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay was not built like a museum piece.<\/p>\n

The former Beatle and his All Starr Band<\/a> performed Friday, May 29, at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay<\/a>, where the format gave the show more range than a straight legacy set. Starr sang Beatles favorites and solo hits, then handed the spotlight to bandmates whose own catalogs stretched across Toto, Men at Work, Average White Band, and more.<\/p>\n

That rotating setup is still the key to the All Starr Band\u2019s appeal. A Ringo concert can deliver \u201cYellow Submarine\u201d and \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends,\u201d then shift into \u201cAfrica,\u201d \u201cDown Under,\u201d or \u201cPick Up the Pieces\u201d without feeling like a cover-band detour.<\/p>\n

The Show Mixed Beatles Songs With All Starr Hits\"Steve<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Ben Houdijk \/ Shutterstock.<\/p>\n

The current All Starr Band lineup includes Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Buck Johnson. Starr\u2019s official site listed that lineup when the spring 2026 tour launched from Temecula on May 28.<\/p>\n

The San Diego setlist opened with \u201cMatchbox\u201d and \u201cIt Don\u2019t Come Easy,\u201d then moved quickly into Lukather\u2019s \u201cRosanna,\u201d Stuart\u2019s \u201cPick Up the Pieces,\u201d and Hay\u2019s \u201cDown Under,\u201d according to Setlist.fm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Starr\u2019s Beatles-connected songs included \u201cBoys,\u201d \u201cYellow Submarine,\u201d \u201cOctopus\u2019s Garden,\u201d \u201cI Wanna Be Your Man,\u201d and \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends.\u201d His solo material included \u201cIt Don\u2019t Come Easy,\u201d \u201cNo No Song,\u201d \u201cChoose Love,\u201d and \u201cPhotograph.\u201d<\/p>\n

The All Starr Format Kept the Night Moving\"The<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Druss379 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0\/Wiki Commons.<\/p>\n

The All Starr Band concept gives Starr a useful advantage over many legacy acts. He does not have to carry the night alone or keep the show locked inside one catalog.<\/p>\n

Lukather\u2019s Toto material brought \u201cRosanna,\u201d \u201cAfrica,\u201d and \u201cHold the Line\u201d into the set. Hay added Men at Work favorites \u201cDown Under,\u201d \u201cOverkill,\u201d and \u201cWho Can It Be Now?\u201d Stuart brought Average White Band\u2019s \u201cPick Up the Pieces\u201d and \u201cCut the Cake,\u201d along with \u201cWork to Do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result is a concert that still has the emotional pull of Starr\u2019s Beatles history without asking the audience to live only in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Beatles Memories Still Anchored the Show\"Ringo<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Mazur Travel \/ Shutterstock.<\/p>\n

At 85, Starr carries a kind of musical history few performers can match. When he sings \u201cYellow Submarine\u201d or \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends,\u201d the songs arrive with decades of memory already attached.<\/p>\n

The San Diego set closed with \u201cWith a Little Help From My Friends,\u201d followed by a \u201cGive Peace a Chance\u201d outro, according to Setlist.fm. That ending fit the familiar shape of a Ringo show: warm, communal, and built for the audience to sing back.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotograph\u201d gave the set one of its clearest solo-era anchors, while \u201cIt Don\u2019t Come Easy\u201d remained the direct Ringo signature that bridges his post-Beatles career with the singalong spirit of the full-band show.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Stop Was Part of a Short Spring Run<\/p>\n

The Humphreys show came one night after Starr opened the spring run at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula. His official site lists the tour as a 12-city run ending June 14 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

After San Diego, the schedule continues through Prescott Valley, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Lincoln, Paso Robles, Albuquerque, Denver, San Jose, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The tour also follows the release of Long Long Road, Starr\u2019s second album with T Bone Burnett. Starr\u2019s official site announced the 10-song album for April 24, 2026, through UMe, following their 2025 country collaboration Look Up.<\/p>\n

That mix of new music, Beatles staples, solo hits, and All Starr detours is what keeps the show from feeling like a fixed tribute to the past. Starr\u2019s San Diego stop still had plenty of nostalgia, but the band gave it movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr brought Beatles memories to San Diego, but his sold-out night at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[140348,140346,140347,140345,140342,22362,139912,74,76,75,140344,140343],"class_list":["post-340696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-all-starr-band","tag-beatles-songs","tag-colin-hay","tag-hamish-stuart","tag-humphreys-concerts","tag-image-credit","tag-ringo-starr","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-steve-lukather","tag-yellow-submarine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}