{"id":503058,"date":"2026-03-04T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:56:10","slug":"beatles-legend-ringo-starr-announces-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503058\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles legend Ringo Starr announces new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sir Ringo Starr<\/a>, the former Beatles<\/a> drummer, has announced a new album and released its inaugural single. <\/p>\n

The 85-year-old musician’s new 10-track record, titled Long Long Road, is set to feature collaborations with notable artists including Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow<\/a>, and St Vincent.<\/p>\n

The album’s first single, It\u2019s Been Too Long, which dropped on Tuesday, showcases guest appearances from Sarah Jarosz and Molly Tuttle. Co-written by Sir Ringo himself and American producer T Bone Burnett, Long Long Road is scheduled for release on 24 April. <\/p>\n

This new offering follows his 2025 album, Look Up, which notably secured his first number one spot on the UK\u2019s official country chart.<\/p>\n

Sir Ringo said: \u201cI\u2019m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I\u2019m calling Long Long Road, because I\u2019ve been on a long long road.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ThisThis new offering follows his 2025 album, Look Up , which notably secured his first number one spot on the UK\u2019s official country chart (ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, the album has a country and Americana sound and features much of the same bandmembers from Look Up.<\/p>\n

Sir Ringo added that the album includes musical influences from guitarist Carl Perkins and said: \u201cI recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record and he found this beautiful track I\u2019d never heard before, I Don\u2019t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

T Bone said the pair decided to write a song together after attending a poetry reading together, praising the musician for being of the \u201chighest calibre\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ve loved Ringo\u2019s playing and his singing for my whole life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote him a Gene Autry type song because I always heard Ringo as a Texas artist, the way he played felt just like Texas music to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cRingo Starr is a recording artist of the highest calibre, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that\u2019s happening around Nashville for both of these records.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Ringo \u2013 real name Richard Starkey \u2013 rose to fame as part of The Beatles which was formed in 1960 and made up of Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison.<\/p>\n

The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time and one of the most influential groups in the world, having achieved 18 UK number one singles and 16 UK number one albums.<\/p>\n

Long Long Road will be released on April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-503058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}