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Forbes
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Ringo Starr Casually Announces A New Album
Ringo Starr confirms he's recording a new album with T Bone Burnett, following the Americana-leaning ... More Look Up, which arrived earlier in 2025. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 07: Ringo Starr attends Ringo's Peace & Love Birthday Celebration at Beverly Hills Garden Park on July 07, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo byfor ABA) Ringo Starr's energy shows no sign of waning, even though the celebrated musician recently turned 85. After more than six decades in the spotlight, the legendary drummer is not only still touring, he's expanding his musical horizons in ways few could have expected, and continuing to produce more new music. Just months after releasing Look Up, his first full-length in more than half a decade, Starr recently shared some good news via an announcement that confirms that more new work is on the way. A Follow-Up to Look Up In a video Starr shared recently on YouTube, the former Beatle revealed that he is already working on a new album, and the project sees him reuniting with the producer who helped him produce his latest genre-shifting effort. 'I'm in the studio here now doing another album with T Bone [Burnett]. Thank you, Lord. Woo. Yeah,' he said in the clip. He jokingly referred to the album's working title as Look Up Two, but then added with a smile, 'I don't think it'll be called that.' Few Details Are Available For the moment, details about Starr's upcoming album are scarce, but that's likely only because it's still early days when it comes to putting the project together. The set, which doesn't have a real title or release date yet, will be Starr's twenty-second as a soloist. Look Up Was Something Different The upcoming effort will follow Look Up, his country-leaning full-length released in January 2025, which marked his first studio album in nearly six years. That project was a stylistic pivot for Starr, as it leaned into Americana and roots sounds. Fans embraced the sonic move, and Look Up was a relative commercial success in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Touring Picks Up Again in September While Starr is focused on recording for now, he'll soon be back on the road. The second leg of his U.S. tour is set to kick off on September 10 in Chicago. The next piece of the run will wrap with a six-night Las Vegas residency at the Venetian Theatre, which opens on September 17 and runs through September 27. Ringo Starr's Creative Push This upcoming collection will seemingly build on the momentum of Look Up, which earned praise for everything from the production to Starr's decision to try something new and focus on a style that's growing in popularity. The album featured guest contributions from Billy Strings, Lucius, Molly Tuttle, and Alison Krauss, who all rank among the most celebrated names in Americana at the moment.
Miami Herald
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Las Vegas Strip casino closes 1980s superstar singer residency
Comedy singers and musicians have entertained audiences with clever and hilarious song lyrics for decades. Songs performed by comedic artists sometimes contain original lyrics and music. And other times, the artist might borrow the music from a well-known song and write parody lyrics to create a comedic song. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Back in the 1950s and '60s, musician, singer, songwriter, satirist, and mathematician Tom Lehrer, now 97, entertained a more cerebral crowd on his piano. Related: Las Vegas Strip casino shuts down superstar rock band residency You might find a YouTube video out there somewhere of him performing one of his songs about math or his classic song, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." Comedian Allan Sherman had a huge hit in 1963 with his comedy song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)," which won a Grammy Award and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The next year, during Beatlemania, Sherman had another humorous novelty song, "Pop Hates The Beatles," sung to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel." Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry, who wrote and performed some of the most influential rock songs ever like "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," and "Rock and Roll Music" in the 1950s, had his only No. 1 hit with a novelty song, "My Ding-A-Ling" in 1972. In the 1960s, Ray Stevens had some hit novelty songs like "Ahab, The Arab" and "Guitarzan," before hitting No. 1 in May 1974 with his biggest hit, "The Streak." Comic actor Martin Mull, who passed away in June 2024, recorded seven comedy music albums with original music and lyrics from 1972 to 1979. After performing his act in clubs for several years, Mull got his break on the Norman Lear series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" in 1976 and its spin-offs "Fernwood 2 Night" in 1977 and "America 2 Night" in 1978, in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble. As the 1980s began, Mull stepped away from recording albums, but still performed live concerts at clubs and on the college circuit, as this writer witnessed. Mull began to spend more time acting on the big screen, as he took a lead role in the 1980 comedy film "Serial" and other motion picture roles in films like "Mr. Mom" in 1983 and "Clue" in 1985. But the most popular comedy recording artist ever is still performing to sell-out crowds after over 40 years in the business and is finishing a major engagement. Image source:Legendary comedy rock star "Weird Al" Yankovic closes his popular sold-out residency in the Venetian Theatre at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas with a final show on June 21. Related: Las Vegas Strip casino extends pop superstar's sold-out residency Weird Al Yankovic scheduled five shows at the Venetian Theatre for June 13, 14, 18, 20, and 21, back in September 2024, to kick off his 73-show Bigger & Weirder 2025 Tour, with plans to perform his iconic hits and some never-performed-live-before fan favorites. The tour ends Sept. 25 in Clearwater, Fla. More Las Vegas: Las Vegas Strip Sphere signs another superstar band residencyLas Vegas Strip casino closes country superstar's residencyLas Vegas Strip casino signs global superstar singer to residency Special guest Puddles Pity Party, the 7-foot singing sad clown, opens all of the shows. Puddles has performed shows at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Theatre and London's Soho Theatre, as well as a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. A review of Weird Al's tour page shows that VIP tickets for 49 of his shows are sold out; tickets for six shows, including the final Vegas show, are sold out; and joining a waitlist is required for 25 shows on the tour. Weird Al, who has won five Grammy Awards, rocketed to fame in 1984 with his Michael Jackson "Beat It" parody song "Eat It" and Greg Kihn Band "Jeopardy" parody "I Lost on Jeopardy." He is considered the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, according to the Grammy Museum. Related: Las Vegas Strip casinos can't escape an alarming trend The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
