
Instead, he is resigned to their fate singing now you’re expecting me to live without you / But that’s not something that I’m looking forward to. Though that idea is a familiar face throughout pop music, the lyrics take an atypical turn in that Starr has no hope that they will find their way back to one another. Accompanied by Ringos original manuscript of over 15,000 words, PHOTOGRAPH gives unprecedented insight into the life of one of the worlds greatest musicians. Three days later they appeared for a second time on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' via a broadcast from. Starr believes the photo was taken in Miami. They should be in their 60s now, according to USA Today. In the song’s lines, Starr talks about being haunted by the memory of the relationship with only a photograph to remember them by. Ahead of his books release, Starr is asking for help finding the teens from the highway snapshot. “ Photograph” is a sentimental ode to a loss of a lover. Though the song first grabbed audiences for its romantic balladry, it soon went on to take on new meaning in light of Harrison’s death in 2001. The lead single off the album was the somber track, “Photograph.” The song went on to become one of Starr’s most famous solo efforts, notable for his collaboration with George Harrison. Ever the glue guy, for his third effort Starr brought all of the Beatles together in the closest thing fans ever got to a fab four reunion. He opted for something a little poppier and a little lighter than the experimental rock of McCartney, Lennon, and Harrison.īy 1973, Starr already had two full-length solo albums that had made him a force in the music industry in his own right. As all four of the Beatles began to strive for artistic identity in the tricky solo realm, Ringo Starr began to carve out a different kind of sound from the rest of his former bandmates.
