Time Takes Time

Infobox Album | Name = Time Takes Time
Type = Album
Artist = Ringo Starr


Released = 22 May 1992
Recorded = February -
September 1991 &
February 1992
Genre = Rock
Length = 40:04
Label = Private Music
Producer = Don Was, Jeff Lynne,
Peter Asher
and Phil Ramone
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:skngtq9ztu4a link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ringostarr/albums/album/245620/review/5944482/time_takes_time link]
Last album = "Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band"
(1990)
This album = "Time Takes Time"
(1992)
Next album = ""
(1993) |

"Time Takes Time" is Ringo Starr's 1992 critically acclaimed comeback album. His first studio album since 1983's "Old Wave", it followed a successful 1989/1990 world tour with his All-Starr Band. Aligning himself with top producers Don Was, Peter Asher, Phil Ramone and Jeff Lynne, the album was recorded sporadically throughout 1991. The material was written predominantly by outside writers, with Ringo co-writing three songs. "Time Takes Time" features several celebrity guests including Brian Wilson ,Harry Nilsson and former ELO frontman Lynne. "Time Takes Time" also marked Starr's first alliance with Mark Hudson"Time Takes Time" album credits, Private Music release 212902] , both of whom would embark on a long-term musical partnership in the ensuing years. Hudson assisted in vocal arrangements on some of the Phil Ramone-produced tracks.

Several tracks were left off the album.Clayson, Alan "Ringo Starr: Straight Man Or Joker", Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd. 1998 p.334] A Paul McCartney song entitled "Angel In Disguise", to which Ringo added a verse, has not seen the light of day.Clayson, Alan "Ringo Starr: Straight Man Or Joker", Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd. 1998 p.334] Ringo covered the Elvis Presley hit "Don't Be Cruel" which was instead issued as the B-side of the "Weight Of The World" CD single (except in Japan). Another outtake, "Everyone Wins", was issued in Germany as the vinyl B-side of the "Don't Go Where The Rod Don't Go" single. Two more outtakes that never saw the light of day (to date)were a Phil Picket song "Love Is Going To Get You" , produced by Phil Ramone, and the Jeff Lynne produced "Call Me". Lynne told journalist Peter Palmiere as part of a DISCoveries cover story on Ringo that "Call Me" will never be released at anytime anywhere.Fact|date=October 2007 Although Starr recorded and released a song on "Goodnight Vienna" entitled "Call Me", it bares no resemblance to the Jeff Lynne-produced number.

Well-received upon release, many critics considered "Time Takes Time" Starr's best album since 1973's ""Ringo"". Rolling Stone Magazine wrote, "The drummer's most consistent, wide-awake album since Ringo, from 1973". Parke Puterbaugh, rollingstone.com] The release was met with some indifference by the public however, and thus failed to chart. However, lead single "Weight Of The World" managed to reach #74 in the UK, giving Starr his first single entry there since "Only You (And You Alone)" in 1974.

"Time Takes Time" has sold about 70,000 copies in America since its release although Private Music before they folded claimedSpecify|date=October 2007 sales figures a little over 200,000 in the United States. "Times Takes Time" was the last Ringo Starr album on vinyl, though only in Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Germany.

Despite an All-Starr tour in 1992 to promote the album, "Time Takes Time" would be Ringo Starr's only album with Private Music before he was dropped from their roster. It was also deleted a few years after its release.

Track listing

#"Weight Of The World" (Brian O'Doherty/Fred Velez) – 3:54
#* Produced by Don Was
#"Don't Know A Thing About Love" (Richard Feldman/Stan Lynch) – 3:49
#* Produced by Don Was
#"Don't Go Where The Road Don't Go" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman/Gary Grainger) – 3:20
#* Produced by Jeff Lynne
#* features only Starr, Jeff Lynne, and S. Katayama (cello)
#"Golden Blunders" (Jonathan Auer/Kenneth Stringfellow) – 4:06
#* Produced by Peter Asher
#"All In The Name Of Love" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:42
#* Produced by Phil Ramone
#"After All These Years" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman) – 3:10
#* Produced by Jeff Lynne
#* features only Starr and Jeff Lynne
#"I Don't Believe You" (Andy Sturmer/Roger Manning) – 2:48
#* Produced by Don Was
#"Runaways" (Richard Starkey/Johnny Warman) – 4:51
#* Produced by Phil Ramone
#* special guest appearance by Harry Nilsson
#"In A Heartbeat" (Diane Warren) – 4:29
#* Produced by Don Was
#* background vocals feature Brian Wilson
#"What Goes Around" (Rick Suchow) – 5:50
#* Produced by Don Was

External links

* [http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pm262902.html Summary of "Time Takes Time"] from "Complete U.K. Discography of John, Paul, George and Ringo", an anonymous fan's website

References