Ringo Starr (1977) Gave It All Up - LOST 70s GEMS

Tango All Night is an improvement on Las Brisas from the prior album, it's livelier with a real good groove, while Sneaking Sally Through the Alley is another upbeat and highly melodic cut, most tracks are disco driven tunes that have far more verve and dynamic than the bland background music of Ringo's Rotagravure could offer. The song Wings has a cool hard rock guitar opening but the 2012 version is definitely a better, a sprightly reggae regeneration of the cheerful if fairly average tune.

It's No Secrets starts with jazz guitar picking and the whirring pings of a analogue synthesizer adding a Sci-fi vibe to a straightforward disco tune, sending it into the stars in this floaty synth soul. The synth work get's more agitated and echoey as the songs comes to the with an orgy of aireyness like the wah-wah guitar picks and dazed backing singers and another synth streaming underneath.

However Gave It All Up is the true revelation, a touching ballad that is heartfelt and sticks out of the majority of Ringo tunes that have a light, frivolous feel, this has impact with it's tale of his younger, wayward years seemingly striking a heart string and delivered in a beautifully restrained, lethargic way accompanied by a fitting use of lonesome harmonica and a laidback drum beat.